The Signal Report · The fine print
This page is about the limits of what I publish, not a way to walk any of it back. The standards below are the ones I hold myself to; this is me being straight about where they stop.
These are my own analyses of science and world events. I write them, I cite them, and the interpretations are mine. Every factual claim is held to a primary source (a paper, a dataset, an official document), and I link it so you can check my work. When I get something wrong, I fix it in place and note what changed. That's the standard. This page exists to be honest about its edges, not to excuse sloppiness.
Nothing here is medical, legal, financial, or professional advice, and none of it substitutes for a qualified professional who actually knows your situation. This matters most for anything about supplements or health: a study is not a prescription, an effect measured in eighteen people is not a promise about you, and you should talk to a clinician before acting on something you read here. If you make a health decision on the strength of a blog post alone (mine or anyone's), that's on you. Please don't.
I run companies in a few of the areas I cover: functional-mushroom supplements, and veteran-owned security and energy ventures. When a report touches one of those, I flag it inside the report, and I mark links to my own companies. Nothing here is sponsored, and no link earns me a commission. If you ever think I've failed to disclose a stake, tell me. That's a defect, and I'll correct it.
I work hard to represent every source faithfully. But I'm one person reading fast-moving science, and sources themselves get things wrong, get updated, or get retracted. Treat my summary as a doorway to the primary source, not a replacement for it. If you're about to make a decision that matters, read the original; I link it for exactly that reason.
I link to studies, coverage, and documents I don't control. A link is a citation, not an endorsement of everything on the other end, and I'm not responsible for what those sites do or say after I've pointed at them.
Corrections are the job, not an embarrassment. If something here is wrong, write to me and I'll fix it in place with a note saying what changed.