Got Peppers Editorial
Editorial desk
The Got Peppers editorial desk. We write about testing, quality, and research methodology, and we link every claim to where it came from.
About
why this exists.
Got Peppers was created for one reason: better information. There is a lot of noise in this space — hype, misinformation, questionable sources, and questionable claims. Our mission is to make the science easier to understand, ask better questions, dig into the research, and help people understand what quality and transparency actually look like. No hype. No nonsense. Just education, research, and real conversations.
editorial standards
These are the rules we hold ourselves to. If we break one, tell us — the address is in the footer, and a correction is a better outcome for everyone than a quiet edit.
We link to the source, not to a summary of it
Citations point at PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, FDA, NIH, peer-reviewed journals, or the actual laboratory document. If we cannot link it, we say the claim is unsourced rather than dressing it up.
We separate what is known from what is assumed
Every substantive claim is labelled by how well supported it is. A mechanism is not an outcome, and a result in cells is not a result in people.
We do not fabricate citations
Where an article is still waiting on verification, the reference is marked needs research on the page itself, in public, rather than filled with a plausible-looking link.
We correct in the open
When we get something wrong we fix it, date the change, and say what changed. Silent edits are how a publication loses the right to be trusted.
Sponsorship never buys a conclusion
Commercial relationships are disclosed on the page they affect. They do not decide what we cover or what we conclude.
No medical advice, ever
We explain science, testing, and evidence. We do not tell anyone what to take, how much, or what it will do for them. That is a conversation for a qualified healthcare professional.
how we label evidence
Most overclaiming happens when a real finding gets restated one confidence level too high. So we label. The full explanation is here.
EstablishedSupported by human clinical research, replicated, with limitations stated.
PreliminaryHuman data exists but is small, single-study, or short.
PreclinicalCells or animals only. A hypothesis about humans, not a finding in them.
TheoreticalA mechanism-based expectation with no direct study behind it.
AnecdotalSelf-report. Real experiences, no controls.
UnknownNobody has looked, or the studies do not answer the question.
ownership & sponsorship
Got Peppers is an editorial project owned by the same team behind PepGenex, a commercial brand. Where a Got Peppers article links to PepGenex — or to any company we have a financial relationship with — that relationship is disclosed on the page itself, not just here.
Sponsorship buys placement. It does not buy a conclusion, a rating, or the removal of a criticism. If we cannot cover something honestly while taking money from it, we do not take the money.
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