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title: "Editorial Policy: How Plainly Graded Works | Plainly Graded"
description: "What we will and won't do, how we grade evidence, how we source and check pages, how we handle corrections and AI tools, and how we stay independent of sellers."
canonical: https://plainlygraded.com/editorial-policy/
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publisher: Plainly Graded
policy: "No dosing, no sourcing, no vendor links. Every claim cites a public source."
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> We collect and compare information from public, cited sources. We cannot guarantee that it is complete, current or correct. This is not medical advice. Only a doctor can prescribe, and a doctor should confirm anything you read here before you act on it.

# Editorial policy

## What we are

Plainly Graded is an independent reference on peptides. We explain what each peptide is, how strong the evidence is, what is not known, and where it stands with US regulators and anti-doping rules, with the date we last checked. We don't sell anything. We don't give doses. We don't name, link to or recommend sellers.

## What we will and won't do

**We will:** grade the evidence for each claim on [one published scale](https://plainlygraded.com/evidence-grading/); separate what is claimed from what has been shown; give a dated US and anti-doping status on every page, linked to our [tracker](https://plainlygraded.com/regulatory/); say what nobody knows yet, in its own section; link every factual statement to its public source and name the writer of each page; and correct mistakes in public.

**We won't:** publish doses, schedules, cycle lengths, mixing or reconstitution instructions, injection technique, or dose calculators ([why](https://plainlygraded.com/why-we-dont-give-dosing/)); name, link to, review or rank peptide sellers, compounding pharmacies, clinics or telehealth services; run sponsored content, affiliate links or paid placements; use reader stories as evidence that something works; or call a peptide "safe" or "proven" unless a regulator has approved it for that use, and even then we say exactly what it was approved for.

## How we source and check

Primary sources first, two named people on every page, grades counted from the studies that exist. Details in [How we source](https://plainlygraded.com/how-we-source/).

## Funding and conflicts of interest

Our funding model will be published here before launch. Whatever it is, no advertiser or funder sells or promotes peptides, compounded drugs, hormone or weight-loss telehealth, or supplements, and none sees content before publication. Every writer discloses any financial tie to companies whose products a page covers, and a person with a relevant conflict does not write that page.

## Corrections

Material errors (a wrong status, a wrong study result, a risk overstated or understated) get a correction note at the top of the page saying what was wrong, what is right and when it was fixed, and are logged on our [What we got wrong](https://plainlygraded.com/corrections/) page. We aim to correct safety and regulatory errors within 24 hours of confirming them, and other errors within 5 business days. Smaller fixes go in the page changelog.

## How we use AI tools

Some drafts are written with the help of AI tools, which we also use for research summaries and formatting checks. AI never decides what a page concludes. The last person to read a page before it goes live is its writer.

## Independence

We don't accept free products, samples, trips or payments from anyone whose products we cover, and we don't let sellers, clinics or manufacturers review drafts. If a company tells us a page is wrong, we check the claim against the evidence like any other correction report.

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We collect and compare information from public, cited sources. We cannot guarantee that it is complete, current or correct. This is not medical advice. Only a doctor can prescribe, and a doctor should confirm anything you read here before you act on it.

Canonical page: https://plainlygraded.com/editorial-policy/