Retractions: How Scientific Papers Die and How to Check Before You Share
Thousands of papers are retracted every year, yet retracted studies keep circulating in news feeds and policy debates — a two-minute database check settles which.
Research
New discoveries and studies with professor/expert commentary — 'профессура и экспертность' vertical
Cohort Study or Randomized Trial? Why the Design Behind a Finding Changes the Claim
Observational cohorts can follow half a million people for decades; randomized trials can isolate a single variable — knowing which design produced a headline tells you what it can honestly say.
What a p-Value Can and Cannot Tell You About a Health Headline
A p-value measures how surprising the data would be if nothing were going on — it says nothing about size, importance, or whether the finding is true.
Preprint vs Peer-Reviewed: What the Study Behind a Headline Actually Is
Many health headlines cite research that no journal has reviewed; a two-minute check of the paper's status tells you how much weight a finding can carry.