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Corrections Policy

Why corrections matter more on a health site

A wrong number in a business story misleads. A wrong number in a health story can change what someone does with their body. We treat corrections not as embarrassments to be minimised but as part of the product: the fastest, most visible proof that this site would rather be accurate than look infallible. Every correction we make is done in the open, on the article, with a date.

What counts as what

Corrections

A correction fixes a factual error: a wrong dose, a misstated study finding, a percentage read from the wrong column, a misattributed quote, a claim stronger than the source supports. When we correct, the fix goes into the article text and a note at the article records what was wrong and when it was fixed. We do not silently rewrite an error out of existence, because a reader who acted on the earlier version deserves to be able to see what changed.

Clarifications

A clarification addresses wording that was technically accurate but likely to leave a wrong impression: “linked to” read as “causes”, a relative risk that sounded absolute, a finding in mice that read as a finding in people. These get the same visible, dated treatment, because on a health site a misleading impression does the same damage as an error.

Updates

An update reflects the world changing rather than us being wrong: new guidance issued, a recall expanded, further results published. Updates are marked with the date so readers can tell reporting from revision.

When the research itself moves

Health journalism has a failure mode most news does not: an article can be perfectly accurate on publication day and wrong two years later, because the evidence moved. We handle this deliberately:

  • Evergreen guides are review targets. Our major guides get revisited against current evidence, and each carries the date of last review, which is part of the information we owe you.
  • Superseded guidance gets flagged, not deleted. If a major public health body reverses course on something we covered, the old article receives a prominent dated note pointing to the new state of the evidence, and the guide is rewritten.
  • Retracted studies are a hard trigger. If a study we reported on is retracted or receives an expression of concern, the article gets an immediate prominent notice, whether or not anything in our summary was itself inaccurate. Reporting on a retracted study without saying so is misinformation with a citation.

How to report an error

Email support@remedieshealthfitness.com with CORRECTION in the subject. Include the article link, quote the exact sentence you dispute, and point to your evidence: the study, the guideline, the official announcement. Reports with a source attached move fastest, but do not let the lack of a citation stop you; a specific, plausible report will be checked either way. Correction mail is the highest-priority category in our inbox and is reviewed as soon as an editor sees it.

What happens next

  • An editor checks the disputed claim against the original sources and, where needed, against newer ones.
  • If we were wrong, we fix the text, add the dated correction note, and where the error was serious enough to have travelled, we consider whether the headline or social copy also needs correcting.
  • If we were right, we reply and say so, with the source. If the sentence was right but foggy, we clarify it and mark that too.
  • Errors involving doses, safety information, medication interactions or anything else with direct capacity for harm jump every queue we have.

What we do not do

We do not remove accurate articles because someone dislikes them, and we do not alter accurate reporting under commercial or reputational pressure. Removal of an article is rare and reserved for cases where the piece is irreparably wrong or its continued existence causes harm that a correction note cannot cure; even then, we prefer a visible note explaining the removal to a silent disappearance. Accountability that vanishes is not accountability.