Editorial policy

Rules, not opinions. Statuses, tags and findings are set by rules that apply to every trial and every medicine in the same way. The rules are published in How the data is built, with every change dated.

Negative results stay. Trials that failed, stopped early or never reported are kept and shown, because they are part of what is known.

Sources for every statement. Each figure links to the record it comes from, and each statement in the course and the research overviews cites a published source. Quotes from abstracts are copied word for word and checked by software.

Corrections. When an error is reported, we fix the rule that caused it, so the fix applies everywhere, and list the change in the corrections log.

Independence. No company or funder can pay for a conclusion, a placement or early access.