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      "kind": "primary",
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      "notes": "Read the opening synthesis, Part 1 on control, governance and policy, and Part 3's explicit revisions and risk assessment, plus the policy discussion before Part 3. Used for the authors' advocacy and self-described changes. Their accounts of third-party incidents, product behavior, investment and law were not independently verified. The proposed record does not repeat those accounts as established facts or infer a whole-lab halt."
    }
  ]
}