FactoWiki Editorial Team
The FactoWiki Editorial Team is the role responsible for product reviews, comparisons and Best Supplements guides, for checking product information against its sources, and for corrections and final publication. It is an editorial function, not a panel of medical professionals.
On this page
What the Editorial Team does
- Publishes and maintains product reviews, head-to-head comparisons and Best Supplements guides.
- Identifies the exact product being reviewed and checks its label, seller terms, price and refund conditions.
- Checks that health statements cite a source and that ingredient research is not presented as proof a product works.
- Reviews Research Team content for clarity and consistency before publication.
- Handles corrections, updates and reader reports.
How sources are selected
Product facts come from the current Supplement Facts panel where available, the seller’s official product and order pages, and published refund terms. These establish what is advertised, not whether it works. Health and ingredient statements rely on sources chosen by the FactoWiki Research Team: PubMed-indexed human studies, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and guidance from NIH (including the Office of Dietary Supplements), NCCIH and the FDA. Marketing pages, affiliate-network descriptions, bottle-front images and testimonials are not treated as evidence of a formula or an outcome. When sellers publish conflicting formulas, or ingredient names without amounts, the review says so.
How updates are handled
Pages are revisited when a label, price, refund term or relevant evidence changes, when a reader reports a problem, or during periodic checks of a category. An updated date on a page records an editorial change; it does not mean every health statement was re-reviewed by a clinician. Where a formula change affects conclusions, the page states what changed.
How corrections are handled
Report an error through the contact page with the page URL and, ideally, a source. Factual errors — a wrong dose, ingredient, price, citation or claim — are corrected on the page and the updated date is changed. Corrections that change a conclusion are noted on the page. Citations that cannot be verified are removed or replaced rather than left in place. See the correction policy.
How affiliate relationships work
FactoWiki may earn a commission when a reader buys through a link on a product review page. These links are marked as sponsored and disclosed on the page. Comparison pages, Best Supplements guides, evidence reviews and ingredient guides do not carry affiliate purchase links. Commissions are paid by sellers or affiliate networks, not by readers. See the affiliate disclosure.
How conflicts of interest are avoided
- Evidence first: ingredient evidence, dose transparency and safety are assessed before price and refund terms, and commission is not an assessment criterion.
- Separated page types: pages that judge between products (comparisons and Best guides) and evidence pages carry no affiliate links, so rankings do not depend on which link earns more.
- Negative conclusions stay published: a product that pays a commission can be — and often is — described as poorly dosed, opaque, unsupported or unsuitable.
- No invented scores: numerical ratings were removed because they could not be calculated reproducibly.
- Disclosure: commercial relationships are disclosed on every page that contains an affiliate link.
Desk-based or first-hand?
FactoWiki product reviews, comparisons and Best guides are desk-based. We have not purchased, used, laboratory-tested or clinically tested the products unless a page explicitly states that first-hand testing took place and describes it. No page currently makes that claim.
What FactoWiki does not claim
- That any page has been medically reviewed. No named doctor, pharmacist, dietitian or other clinician reviews FactoWiki content, and neither team label is a medical credential.
- That any supplement is “clinically proven” because its ingredients have been studied.
- That products were purchased, used or laboratory-tested, unless a page explicitly says so and describes what was done.
- Customer ratings, testimonials or before-and-after results that cannot be verified.
- That our content diagnoses, treats or replaces advice from a qualified professional who knows your circumstances.
- Qualifications, job titles or experience for people who do not exist. FactoWiki uses role-based attribution rather than invented author profiles.