[
  {
    "claim": "Julian Brown / NatureJAB is a real public figure/project.",
    "label": "Supported",
    "finding": "NatureJAB/JAB Innovations pages identify Julian Brown, describe five reactor generations, public demonstrations, a 501(c)(3) JAB Innovations route, and Plastolene fuel made from waste plastic."
  },
  {
    "claim": "The process can turn plastic into liquid/gaseous hydrocarbons.",
    "label": "Scientifically real",
    "finding": "Plastic pyrolysis is a long-studied thermochemical process. Microwave-assisted pyrolysis is also reviewed in the scientific literature as a route to oil, gas and solid carbon products from waste plastics."
  },
  {
    "claim": "Julian Brown invented plastic-to-fuel pyrolysis.",
    "label": "Overstated / false if worded broadly",
    "finding": "Lead Stories correctly notes pyrolysis and plastic-to-fuel work pre-date Brown. A patent page for microwave-based pyrolysis reactor methods lists University of Colorado inventors, not Brown, showing the field is broader than one viral inventor."
  },
  {
    "claim": "Brown may have built a novel small/mobile solar-powered microwave pyrolysis implementation.",
    "label": "Plausible but needs independent performance data",
    "finding": "NatureJAB says its Mark V is mobile, solar-powered and continuous. That is a project claim/public demonstration claim; the independent record found here does not include a peer-reviewed performance paper, emissions test, fuel certificate, or commercial-scale audit for the system."
  },
  {
    "claim": "Plastolene is 110-octane, zero-emissions, clean fuel.",
    "label": "Unverified / needs lab and life-cycle proof",
    "finding": "NatureJAB/JAB Innovations make the 110-octane and zero-emissions claims. The source package did not locate an independent lab certificate or life-cycle assessment proving those claims for real mixed plastic feedstocks at scale."
  },
  {
    "claim": "Plastic pyrolysis solves plastic pollution.",
    "label": "Partly real, not a complete solution",
    "finding": "IEA Bioenergy Task 36 says pyrolysis can complement mechanical recycling for difficult mixed plastics, but notes scale-up, flexible feedstocks, and missing process data/mass-energy balances. EPA’s hierarchy still prioritizes reducing and reusing before recycling."
  },
  {
    "claim": "Brown disappeared because the invention threatened Big Oil.",
    "label": "Unsupported conspiracy framing",
    "finding": "Snopes reported Brown later appeared with his mother and said he was safe; the available evidence supports online speculation and security/threat concerns, not proof of corporate kidnapping or suppression."
  },
  {
    "claim": "The Invest Fest clip proves a commercially ready energy breakthrough.",
    "label": "Not proven",
    "finding": "The Reel is a conference/social-media demonstration claim. It does not provide throughput, energy input/output, fuel analysis, emissions control data, capex/opex, permitted operation, or independent scale-up validation."
  }
]