Oh snap. I knew a hypothesis statement is a conditional one, but I also thought it is a sort of claim, albeit a provisional one. That’s why I included “untested” or “poorly tested” in that description. However, looking up the definition of “claim” in the dictionary:
So a claim can mean an assertion (relevant to this context), and an assertion is a positive statement made without supporting evidence. A hypothesis is not an assertion, hence not a claim, because it does not hold a statement to be true in the absence of positive evidence. Instead, it can set up claims for testing. For example, a homeopath could claim/assert that his concoction speeds up the recovery rate of mildly or severely ill Covid-19 patients, but provide no positive evidence for it: using a well-defined hypothesis, a medical researcher can evaluate whether this claim is true or false (and we know how it has played out in real life 
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Thus, GAE does not make assertions or claims about anything. I misused both words here. Thanks for clarifying @Mercer and @swamidass.
Same thoughts here. I misused “claim”.
The funny thing though is that I know they are different, but still got them confused and I know how. You know when we use the phrase “hypothesis testing”, what we really mean is “testing claims contained in a hypothesis”, so I think that at the moment I conflated a claim with its containing hypothesis. That was a silly mix up.
I agree too. I hope you can see now that I am willing to admit my errors.