Editorial process
What has to be true before a page publishes
The short answer
Every page must carry at least one element that could not be copied from another site, every load-bearing fact must trace to a data file rather than to memory, every citation must carry its evidence tier, and the claims checks must pass. A page failing any of these does not publish, because the build refuses to complete.The checks that run on every build
These are not a policy document, they are code. If one fails, nothing ships.
- Claims. No dosing, no protocol instructions, no disease-treatment claim including implied ones, and no presenting a non-diagnostic device as a diagnostic test.
- Data provenance. The patient-discussion database never enters this repository or the published site, and every count taken from it is stored with the exact query that produced it. A count that could render on a page without its query will not compile.
- Evidence tiers. Every cited source carries a tier, and preprints, abstracts and registries cannot be cited without a stated limitation.
- Commercial placement. No paid link may appear on the about, methodology, corpus or disclosures pages. Any link that would is a build failure.
- Dark by default. No commercial link renders unless its programme is both approved and explicitly switched on.
- Orphans and broken links. Every page must be reachable and every internal link must resolve.
How we choose topics
From what patients actually discuss rather than from keyword volume. We write about a pair of conditions only where enough people are genuinely stuck between the two, and we would rather leave a gap than invent one. How that works, and what it cannot tell anyone.
Updating and corrections
Prices are re-verified on a stated cadence and every one renders the date it was last checked. When we get something wrong we log it publicly rather than editing quietly. The correction log.
Use of AI
We use AI tooling for research, drafting and for building the checks described above. It is not permitted to be the source of a fact. Every figure on this site traces to a data file, a named study, or a recorded query, and the personal sections of this site are written by a person about their own experience or they are not written at all.