Back Me Up – Find papers that back your argument

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Back Me Up is a tiny science-ish machine that finds published papers that back your argument. It stemmed from a conversation with a friend around life sciences, where we kind of landed at "surely there’s a paper confirming most arguments", i.e. coffee is bad, coffee is great, etc.You enter a claim, e.g. "drinking wine is good for the heart" -> the system does a semantic search across a corpus (PMC, bioRxiv, medRxiv and arXiv) -> pulls in relevant quotes if they fit your claim, and gives you a verdict.Frontend was done with a combination of Sol + Opus, I spent a bit of time exploring different designs and landed on this slightly ridiculous printer that spits out your evidence.Some notes: - I

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