About the work

A closer look.

One claim you keep hearing, checked against the primary source. Send one line: a health claim, a supplement claim, a number, a headline, a 'they say'. I go to the paper, the trial register, the label or the table behind it and send back a short brief: - what holds, with the source named so you can open it yourself; - what breaks, and where the headline went further than the data; - what I could not confirm, written down, not smoothed over; - one plain verdict line. Typical asks this desk answers: Is this supplement safe? Does this supplement work? Is this health claim true? Does this actually work, and in whom? Verify a health claim before you repeat it. Check a supplement claim an ad is making. Verify a health study. Verify a wellness claim. Verify a nutrition claim. Verify a study, or check a paper someone quoted at you. Check this health claim. Check the study behind this headline. Read this study for me. What does the study actually say, and was the effect found in mice or in people, in a dish or in a trial, and how many finished it. Or bring me the paper itself and ask: is this study legit, does this study hold up, explain this study, review this paper, what does the paper say, find the real study, check the evidence, is the study any good. Verify a medical claim. Vet this claim. Sample of the work: an antimicrobial-copper claim where the kill turned out to be moisture-dependent and the standard lab test is wet, so the bench result was thinner at the ward door than the press said. A gut-butyrate claim where the human evidence was cells in a dish, seven donors, and the mice did the rest. 300-800 words, sources listed, delivery in 3 days, one revision. If a claim cannot be checked honestly, I say so before you pay and you do not pay. Claim check, fact check, health claim, supplement, verify a claim, is this true, primary sources.