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Corrections & Updates Log
We aggregate and fact-check published research — we don't run a lab, and we don't pretend to. Every citation on this site is verified against the primary source before publishing. When we get something wrong, or when something changes, we correct it and log the correction here, publicly and permanently.
Our correction policy
What qualifies: factual errors of any size — a misstated study result, a wrong number, a claim that can't be traced to a source, a product detail that no longer holds. Substantive updates (a study superseded, a recommendation changed) are logged too. Differences of opinion about a pick aren't corrections, but we still read them.
How to report an error: use our contact page and include the page URL and the specific claim. We review reports within a week. If you're right, we fix the page, add a dated entry below, and note what the page said before.
What we won't do: silently edit a factual error away. Fixes to typos, formatting, and dead links happen without a log entry; anything that changes the substance of a claim gets recorded here.
More on how pages get made in the first place: how we pick and about us.
The log
Newest first. Entries are never deleted.
- CorrectionRed Light Therapy Hair Growth Devices
What changed: Corrected the stated duration of the Lanzafame et al. 2013 low-level laser therapy trial from 26 weeks to 16 weeks.
Why: We re-checked the claim against the published abstract and our page had the trial length wrong. The hair-count result itself was reported accurately.
What changed: Removed an order-volume statistic from the galaxy projector roundup and a reader-testimonial claim from the Stanley alternatives roundup.
Why: Neither claim could be traced to a source when we audited these pages. Claims we cannot verify do not belong on the site, so both were removed rather than reworded.
- CorrectionBest Tatcha Dupes on Amazon · Stanley Cup Alternatives
What changed: Corrected the product counts in two page titles that promised 8 picks where 5 were actually listed.
Why: Titles should describe what the page delivers. Both now say 5.
- UpdateSitewide
What changed: Stopped displaying a sitewide auto-generated "Updated today" date. Article bylines and structured data now show the real date of the last substantive review, across 541 pages.
Why: The date was regenerated on every site build, which overstated how fresh each page was. A displayed update date should mean a human actually revisited the page.
- UpdateSitewide
What changed: Completed a full sitewide citation audit. Every PubMed and DOI reference on the site was checked against the primary source; references that did not resolve to the papers they claimed to cite were removed or replaced with verified sources.
Why: An internal audit found citations in earlier content that did not resolve to the referenced papers. Beyond fixing them, we changed the process: citations are now programmatically verified against the primary source before a page can be published.
See something wrong?
Tell us via the contact page — corrections are logged here publicly.