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Four VLMs asked to judge PASS/FAIL on real and synthetic anti-physics clips average 0.50 to 0.66 agreement.\n\nCurator qualifications: Curator located the excerpted evidence in the work copies (automated prefix match) and spot-checked claim-critical figures by search. 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