Editorial standards
How this site corrects itself.
A short, plain statement of how errors are handled, how each piece of writing is dated, and how older material, including writing from the COVID-19 pandemic, is presented today.
Corrections
01Errors are corrected in placeWhen a factual error is found, a date, a citation, a job title, the page is corrected directly. This site does not keep a public changelog of edits.Policy
02Sources are checked before publicationEvery verifiable claim links to a primary source: a journal, a library record, a broadcaster’s own page, or a conference program. Nothing is published without one.PolicyMethodology ↗
03Report an errorIf something here is inaccurate, it can be flagged directly, and it will be checked against the source and corrected.ContactContact ↗
How writing is dated
Every article and page on this site carries the date it was written, or the date it was last reviewed. Where a piece was written for a specific moment, a conference, a broadcast, a public-health emergency, that original date is kept. It is never replaced with the date it was republished here.
PANDEMIC-ERA WRITING Original date, unchanged. Articles written during the COVID-19 pandemic keep the date they were first published. They are presented as general information from that period, not as medical advice, and not as a current clinical recommendation.
What this site is
01A professional recordBiography, clinical work, publications, media and speaking, each linked to a verifiable primary source wherever one exists.Scope
02Not a medical serviceNothing on this site is a substitute for a consultation with a physician, and nothing is a promise of outcome.Boundary
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