Editorial policy

Research-first writing

Articles on Cognition Protocols are written from primary sources, not from other blog posts. That means FDA documents, the Federal Register, peer-reviewed journals, and official clinical guidance. We fetch and read the source before we write the claim, and where the honest answer is uncertain or unsettled, we say so rather than rounding up to a confident one.

Every claim cited

Every factual claim in an article is cited inline to the source it came from. We have zero tolerance for fabricated or unverifiable citations: a reference must point to a real, retrievable document that actually supports the sentence it is attached to, or the sentence does not publish.

AI-assisted drafting, human verification

Our content is drafted with AI assistance and then verified by humans. We will not claim it is "written by humans, not AI," because that would be false. What we do stand behind is the verification layer: sources are checked against the originals, and every clinical claim is traceable to a primary source, as described in our editorial standards. This is cited educational content, not physician-reviewed medical advice.

Automated quality and compliance gates

Before any page goes live, it passes automated checks for citation integrity, prohibited claims (for example, inaccurate drug-approval language or promissory health claims), and structural quality. Pages that fail a gate are held back, not published with a caveat.

Commercial separation

This site participates in referral relationships described in our affiliate disclosure. Compensation does not determine what we cover, what the evidence summary says, or what we recommend readers ask their clinician.

Corrections

If you find an error, email editor@cognitionprotocols.com with the page URL and the issue. Verified errors are corrected in the article, and material corrections are noted with the page's last-updated date.