Editorial Standards
The rules every Good Decades page is written under — authorship, evidence grading, corrections, and what we will not publish.
Updated August 16, 2026
These standards were written before our first article published, and they describe what we actually do — not what sounds good.
Authorship
Every piece of content carries a named author with a public profile. Anonymous health content is not published here, ever. Content making clinical claims additionally carries a named medical reviewer and a visible review date.
Evidence language
We grade claims in the text itself: “has been shown to” means consistent evidence from multiple quality studies; “research suggests” means meaningful but incomplete evidence; “may help” means early or mixed evidence. Where we don’t know, we say we don’t know. Every claim is traceable to a source or explicitly labeled as uncertain.
Dates that mean something
Published and updated dates are visible on every article. An updated date changes only when the content substantively changes — never to look fresh.
Corrections
When we get something wrong, we correct the page, note the correction, and keep the note. Errors that could affect a health decision are corrected with priority over everything else in the queue.
Send possible errors to [email protected]. A correction note states what changed and when when the original error could materially affect a reader’s understanding or health decision. Style edits do not receive a correction note or a false new update date.
Artificial intelligence
Automation may help with research organization, transcription, translation drafts, formatting, or quality checks. It is not credited as an author or medical reviewer and does not approve clinical claims. A named human author is responsible for every published page; a qualified human reviewer is responsible for any medical review shown on the page. We do not paste private reader health information into public AI tools.
Editorial and commercial independence
Editorial staff choose topics, evidence, ratings, and rankings. Affiliate commissions, free samples, sponsorship prospects, and retailer relationships do not decide the verdict. Paid or sponsored material, if introduced, will be labeled at the content itself and will not be presented as independent editorial work.
What we won’t publish
Transformation promises. Fear-first framing. Content designed to rank rather than to help. Advice outside our lanes — diagnosis and treatment belong to clinicians, and pages that need one say so plainly.