How to tell us when something is wrong
If you have found a mistake on Body Literacy Review, send it to us through the contact page, and we will check it against its source. The site is run by people, and its pages are built and checked by the method on our How We Research page, but a detail can still be wrong or go out of date. When that happens, we are sorry, and we want to put it right.
What is worth reporting
A correction matters most when it concerns a fact. That includes an ingredient, an amount, a price, a guarantee or refund term, or what a study found. It also includes a cited source that does not say what the page says, or a link that no longer works. Details that have changed, including a recall or safety warning, are worth telling us about, as is a wrong product or maker named on a page.
Here is one example from our subject. Suppose a page says a study on slow breathing found a large change in heart rate, while the paper itself reports a smaller and more limited effect. A gap like that, between the page and its source, is exactly what we want to hear about.
Product descriptions that break advertising or health-claim rules are also worth flagging. So is an advertisement or banner that is not labelled as one, or that makes a claim of its own.
How to send a report
Use the contact page and include the page address, the sentence in question, and a source for the correct information if you have one. A link to that source makes the check easier for everyone.
What happens next
Each report is checked against the source. If the page is wrong, it is fixed, and the date line on that page then shows “Updated” with the date of the change.
What a correction does not cover
Corrections deal with facts and compliance. Which products a page covers, and how it compares them, are editorial decisions made by the publisher named on our About page, which also discloses commissions and any connection to products shown. Requests to remove a comparison, a competing product or an ad are not corrections, but we read them all. A wrong fact inside a comparison is a correction. A maker who finds something wrong about its product is welcome to send us the source so the page can be updated.
Legal notices and concerns about a product’s safety also go through the contact page. Anyone harmed by a product should speak to a clinician and can report it to the FDA through MedWatch.