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The Gemstone type carries ninety nine debated or debunked facts of four hundred seventeen total, twenty three point seven percent, against an atlas wide baseline under one percent. Read stone by stone, it is not ninety nine different arguments. Forty nine of the type's fifty six gemstones carry the identical debunked note, word for word, on the same paired origin-period fact.

One Story, Repeated Forty Nine Times

"The practice is routinely presented as an ancient or a universal one, and it is neither. Stones were certainly worn, carved and credited with virtues in antiquity, but the specific modern framework, cleansing and charging, programming with intention, chakra correspondence, crystal grids, and the Atlantean and Lemurian back story that goes with it, appears in the twentieth century and can be watched appearing. None of this makes the practice illegitimate as a practice. It makes the claim of ancient provenance false." Amethyst, Ruby, Diamond, Emerald, Lapis Lazuli, Opal, Turquoise and forty two further stones carry this identical sentence, unchanged.

One Stone Carries a Second, Different Argument

Clear Quartz carries the same shared note, and one more of its own: "quartz is sold as a crystal that stores, amplifies and can be programmed with intention, on an analogy with its use in electronics. The analogy is asserted, not argued, and the atlas records the claim as a claim." This is the type's only genuinely separate finding.

Forty Nine Gemstones, Not Ninety Nine Arguments

The type's contested share is real, not a data error, but eighty nine of its ninety nine debated or debunked rows are one argument said forty nine times, and the remaining ten are a second, different argument said once. This is reported here as a type wide finding in its own right, and grouped here as a companion to the Frequencies essay, the same shape at more than five times the scale.

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• Clear QuartzClear Quartz, the one stone in the type carrying a second, genuinely distinct debunked finding of its own
• RubyOne of forty nine stones carrying the identical debunked origin note word for word
• DiamondOne of forty nine stones carrying the identical debunked origin note word for word
• EmeraldOne of forty nine stones carrying the identical debunked origin note word for word
• Lapis LazuliOne of forty nine stones carrying the identical debunked origin note word for word
• OpalOne of forty nine stones carrying the identical debunked origin note word for word
• TurquoiseOne of forty nine stones carrying the identical debunked origin note word for word
• JadeOne of forty nine stones carrying the identical debunked origin note word for word
• Blue SapphireOne of forty nine stones carrying the identical debunked origin note word for word