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4# ReasonRoots
5
6Evidence-first explainer for traditional beliefs and health myths — mechanism, origin, harm risk, and practical modern guidance for every claim.
7
8**TYPE:** Web Application
9**STATUS:** Live
10**LIVE:** https://reasonroots.vercel.app
11**DEV:** http://localhost:5050
12**WORKSPACE:** ~/GitHub/mythbust
13**GITHUB:** nikanjuri/reasonroots (private)
14
15---
16
17## FEATURES
18
19- 40 curated claims across pregnancy, food/health, and Vaastu with manually reviewed citations
20- Every claim gets evidence status, mechanism, likely origin, harm risk, and modern guidance
21- Sources include PubMed, public-health, nutrition, safety, and building-science literature
22- Deterministic claim matching with a conservative unknown-claim fallback
23- Hidden direct-input support for numerology-style claims without mystical readings
24- Production-verified with hosted Playwright flow tests
25
26---
27
28## TECHNOLOGIES
29
30- Next.js 16 (App Router)
31- TypeScript
32- Tailwind CSS 4
33- Vitest
34- Playwright
35- Vercel
36
37---
38
39## NOTES
40
41ReasonRoots translates traditional beliefs, health myths, Vaastu rules, numerology claims, rituals, and inherited advice into evidence, mechanism, possible origin, harm risk, and practical modern guidance — without mockery and without mysticism.
42
43### Deliberately small, deliberately honest
44
45The MVP is intentionally constrained: English only, curated local claim data, deterministic matching, no database, no RAG, no LLM calls, no accounts. When a claim isn't in the curated set, the app says so and suggests nearby curated claims instead of inventing an answer.
46
47### Evidence discipline
48
49All 40 curated claims carry manually reviewed, claim-level citations — PubMed and PubMed-indexed research, public-health guidance, nutrition and safety literature, building science, psychology, and government data where they add depth. Each claim shows an explicit evidence status rather than a binary true/false verdict.
50
51### Production quality
52
53The live deployment is verified with hosted Playwright flow tests, ships proper metadata and a robots route, has route-level error and not-found screens, and includes a keyboard-visible skip link. Vercel Web Analytics and Speed Insights monitor traffic and Core Web Vitals.