Methodology

How a claim becomes a verdict, and what would have to be true for us to be wrong.

The Myth Meter

Every episode ends in one of five verdicts: False, Mostly false, Half-true, Context matters, or True, but misunderstood. There is no sixth value, and we do not collapse a genuinely mixed picture into a binary just because a binary makes a better thumbnail.

Evidence minimum

A verdict needs at least two independent credible sources, and at least one of them must be primary or high-authority — a systematic review, a public-health body, a professional society, well-designed primary research, or a primary archive. A popular article may help us find a claim. It may never carry the verdict on its own.

What we will not publish

We do not give diagnosis, dosage, treatment advice, or anything personalised. Claims touching medication, pregnancy, infant health, eating disorders, severe illness or acute safety are out of scope for this channel — not because they do not matter, but because they need a qualified reviewer we do not have.

Corrections

When we get something wrong, the correction goes on the page that was wrong, dated, with what changed. We do not quietly edit and move on. See corrections.