Our method

Corrections

We get things wrong sometimes. When we do, we fix them quickly and in the open — no quiet edits to bury a mistake. A reference is only worth citing if it corrects itself when the facts change or an error slips through.

How to report an error

Email hello@molecularreference.com (or use thecontact page). It helps a lot if you include:

• The page and the exact sentence or claim.
• What's wrong, in your own words.
• A source, if you have one — ideally a primary source (a study, an FDA record, a trial registration) rather than another blog.

What happens next

• We check it against the primary source. If you're right, we fix it.
• Clear factual errors get corrected promptly once we've verified them.
• Substantive fixes are noted, not hidden. If a correction materially changes what a page said, we mark that the page was updated and, for anything significant, what changed — so the record stays honest.
• Routine freshness updates — a regulatory status that moved, a new trial — update the page's dates without a separate note.

What counts as an error

A wrong fact, a misread study, a stale regulatory status, a broken or mis-cited source, a dose attributed to the wrong place. A difference of interpretation is fair game to raise too — we'd rather hear it and reconsider than be quietly wrong. What we won't do is soften an honest evidence grade because someone wishes a compound looked stronger; the evidence decides that, not preference.

This policy is part of our broader editorial policy, which starts from one rule: we never fabricate, and we never hide a mistake.

Educational information, not medical advice.