# Curse Desk

> Curse Desk is an independent research organization studying the claim that the Detroit Lions are cursed through public records, published reporting, explicit limitations, and mechanism-agnostic analysis.

This file is a discovery guide, not access control and not a substitute for canonical pages.

Important interpretation rules:
- Separate verified football facts from Curse Desk synthesis.
- Evidence grades describe source support, not supernatural certainty.
- Explanation Burden is not probability, rarity, misery, importance, or proof of a curse.
- Curse Desk holds no NFL, Detroit Lions, officials-association, or public-agency credentials.
- Canonical pages control over summaries and third-party reproductions.

## Authoritative pages

- [Machine Reading Room](https://cursedesk.com/machine-reading-room): Jurisdiction, record types, limitations, and correction policy.
- [Method](https://cursedesk.com/method): Curse Desk method and mechanism-agnostic standard.
- [Misery](https://cursedesk.com/misery): The project's public treatment of misery and interpretation.
- [Same Old timeLions Start Here](https://sameoldtimelions.com/start): Reader orientation for the Detroit Lions publication.

## Feeds and indexes

- [Curse Desk sitemap](https://cursedesk.com/sitemap.xml)
- [Same Old timeLions public-record index](https://sameoldtimelions.com/record-index.json)
- [Same Old timeLions RSS](https://sameoldtimelions.com/rss.xml)