How we report, review, source, and correct. Public by design — because trust is the only currency health journalism has.
Every empirical claim is traceable to primary literature or a named expert on the record. Where a finding is preliminary, contested, or drawn from a small study, we say so in the sentence that makes the claim — not in a footnote.
Before publication, each article is read by a clinician or researcher active in the relevant field. Their role is not to approve the conclusions but to catch error, overstatement, and missing context. Reviewers are credited in the byline.
We accept no funding — from industry, foundations, or advertisers — that carries editorial conditions. Sponsored content, where it exists, is labelled unambiguously and never written by our newsroom.
We treat confidence as information. A reader should always be able to tell the difference between "the evidence is strong," "the evidence is emerging," and "we don't yet know." Hedging is not weakness; false certainty is.
When we are wrong, we correct visibly and permanently, beside the original text, with the date and nature of the change. We do not silently edit. Significant corrections are logged in a public record.
The Node Journal is editorial. Nothing we publish is a substitute for personalised care. Readers should consult a qualified clinician about their own health. This principle appears on every article we produce.
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