Editorial standards

The rules

1. Every factual claim links to a paper, a trial registry record or an official label.
2. Figures are reported as the investigators reported them, including the ones that weaken the headline.
3. The strength of the evidence is named beside the finding: randomised trial, records study, review, animal work, or unpublished announcement.
4. Findings that have not been through peer review are labelled as such wherever they appear.
5. When two credible studies disagree, both are reported and neither is presented as settled.
6. MetaResearch never gives medical advice, never recommends taking anything, and never describes how a substance would be used in a person.
7. Advertising and partner offers are labelled, and they play no part in choosing or writing a briefing.

Corrections

Corrections, source queries and press notes reach the editor at editor@metaresearch.group. Corrections are made on the page itself, with a dated note.

Who writes this

MetaResearch is an independent publication about research itself. It reads studies on metabolic health, longevity and peptide science, and reports three things about each one: what the researchers actually measured, how much weight the result can carry, and what is still unknown.

Every briefing starts from the primary record, meaning the published paper, the trial registry entry or the approved label, rather than from a press summary. Figures are quoted as the investigators reported them, with the source numbered in the text. Where studies disagree, both results appear. Where a finding comes from animals, from a small group of patients or from an analysis added after a trial ended, the briefing says so in the same breath as the number.

MetaResearch is published by MRG Canada. It reports research and gives no medical advice, recommends or supplies nothing, and has no clinical practice behind it. Readers with a health question are directed to their own clinician.

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