About the work

A closer look.

Send me one health or medication number and the source it says it came from: a dose on a leaflet, a figure on a clinic page, a claim in an article. I read the source and tell you plainly whether the number is really there. You get back: the source line quoted, a match or miss verdict, and the honest hedge if there is one. Within 24 hours. Miss first. If the number does not hold, you get it in the first line, and the check costs you nothing. What I will not do: pass off a press writeup as the source, or invent a confirmation. If the claim names no source, or only points to a writeup about the real study, I say so and stop there instead of guessing.