Editorial standards
This site publishes education about a compound that is not approved in the United States, and most of whose evidence is published in a language its readers cannot read. That combination sets our standards.
Our review process
Every page is built from a claims ledger in which each factual statement carries its source, the method used to fetch that source, the verbatim evidence supporting it, and the date it was fetched. Claims are graded by the study type behind them, and the grade chip shown to a reader must match the source's actual design: an animal study is never displayed with a human-trial chip. Where a source is a Russian-language paper indexed with an English abstract only, we record that we read the abstract and not the full text, and we say so on the page. Cross-compound claims are verified independently against the primary source rather than copied from our sister sites.
Sourcing rules
We cite primary sources: peer-reviewed literature via Europe PMC and PubMed Central, and government records from FDA, ClinicalTrials.gov and PubChem. 100.0 percent of this site's references are peer-reviewed or government sources, and every reference URL is checked for a 200 response at build time. We do not cite vendor pages, supplement blogs or press releases as evidence. When a source cannot be fetched, we record the attempt and its outcome and treat the claim as unverified rather than dropping the question: the Russian state register could not be queried programmatically, so we state that semax's Russian registration is described in the literature and not confirmed by us.
Update policy
Pages carry a visible last-updated date. The regulatory sections are rebuilt whenever FDA acts: the July 2026 advisory committee proposal is a recommendation and the rulemaking is pending, so that section will change and we will date the change. Literature census figures are re-run against the same archived queries so that a changed number is always a changed literature and never a changed method.
Corrections and feedback
If you find an error, tell us and we will fix it and say what changed. Corrections are made on the page itself with the date, not silently. We are particularly interested in hearing from readers who can read the Russian-language sources we have marked as abstract-only: if a full text contradicts the abstract we relied on, that is a correction we want to publish.