Editorial policy
How content here is produced, reviewed and changed.
Sourcing
We work from primary sources: peer-reviewed papers indexed in PubMed and trial records in ClinicalTrials.gov. Bibliographic metadata is retrieved from those services programmatically, so citations cannot drift from their source or be invented.
Where we cannot source a claim properly, we do not publish it. An empty profile is better than a confident one that is wrong.
Review
Assessments are written by a named author. A page is only described as reviewed when a named reviewer has genuinely reviewed it — the review fields are never populated as decoration.
Where a page has not yet been through review, it says so rather than implying an assurance that does not exist.
Use of automation and AI
Automation is used to find and import new research into a private queue, to detect likely duplicates, and to retrieve bibliographic metadata. That is the extent of it.
No imported record and no machine-drafted summary is published without a human editor reviewing and approving it. If AI-assisted drafting is enabled, its output stays unpublished until reviewed, and the fact of AI assistance is disclosed on the page.
Updating
Assessments change when the evidence changes. Every change is recorded with the previous grade, the new grade, the study or event that prompted it, and an explanation. We do not silently rewrite a conclusion.
We do not refresh publication dates to appear current.