How we source, verify and decide what not to say.
Every breakdown on this site is written to one standard. The name on the byline is an editorial desk, not a person, so the standard has to do the work a face would normally do. Here it is, in full.
Where the numbers come from
Primary sources only: the trial, the meta-analysis, the consensus statement, the agency guideline. Not the press release about the trial, not a podcast summary of it, not a retailer's blog. If the only source for a figure is a press release or a commercial survey, the figure does not ship.
Every number in the body carries a bracketed reference that resolves to a numbered source list, and every source on the standard links to the paper itself — a DOI where one exists, the publisher or agency page otherwise. You should be able to check any claim on this site in two clicks.
Every claim is verified twice
Articles are drafted against sources that were fetched and read during the drafting, not recalled from memory. Then a separate pass, run independently of the drafting, assumes each claim is wrong until the source proves it: the figure, the population it was measured in, the direction of the effect and the units. The second pass catches things the first one does not. On one twenty-article wave it corrected 17 citation problems across 88 references, including one number that had already been published. We fixed it, bumped the updated date and left the correction visible.
We say what the source says, and no more
If a study was done in trained men in their twenties, the sentence says trained men in their twenties. If the evidence is an association, the sentence says associated, not causes. When no credible source publishes a figure, the article says so instead of inventing one. Ranges are ranges, not point estimates dressed up as precision.
What we will not claim
Dates, updates and corrections
Every article shows the date it was published and the date it was last changed. Any edit that touches a number, a source or a recommendation bumps the updated date. Dates are never moved backwards. If you find an error, write to info@skolandhati.com with the article and the source that contradicts it, and we will check the source and correct the page.
Who writes this
Skol & Hati Editorial is the desk behind every breakdown. The site is built and run by one person, and the byline will carry a name when the time is right. Until then, the standard on this page is the credential, and the sources at the bottom of every article are the evidence that it is being kept.