Hassabis said "we think" pretty much every biologist in the world is now using AlphaFold.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
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The claim about 'pretty much every biologist' is too vague to test.
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Demis Hassabis, “Hassabis said "we think" pretty much every biologist in the world is now using AlphaFold.” (said 10 April 2026). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_fb3822863ea6, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_fb3822863ea6
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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