Editorial Standards

Corrections Policy

Weight Loss Rankings publishes YMYL health content. Errors get corrected promptly, transparently, and with the change history visible to readers. Here is exactly how that works.

How to report an error

If you find a factual error in any article, provider review, data table, pricing claim, or quoted study, email hello@weightlossrankings.org with:

  • The page URL where you saw the error
  • The specific claim or sentence that is wrong
  • The correct information (and a primary-source link if you have one)

We respond to corrections requests within one business day, typically faster. Anonymous reports are welcome — we do not require you to identify yourself to file a correction.

What counts as a correction

We distinguish three categories of edits and handle them differently:

  1. Factual corrections — incorrect numbers, wrong drug names, mis-cited studies, outdated FDA actions, wrong state coverage lists, wrong pricing. These trigger a visible “Correction” stamp at the top of the article noting what was changed and when. The article's structured data dateModified field updates immediately, and the article enters our re-verification queue for an additional pass against primary sources.
  2. Updates from new evidence — when a new clinical trial publishes, an FDA action changes, or a provider updates their pricing or state list, we update the article body and bump lastUpdated on the article registry. The visible “Last reviewed” date in the byline updates accordingly.
  3. Copy edits — typos, grammar fixes, link renames. These do not change dateModified and are not surfaced as corrections — they are not material to the reader.

Correction stamp format

When a factual correction is published, the article header receives a visible Correction banner with the date and a one-line description of what changed. Example:

Correction (2026-04-15): An earlier version of this article cited the SURMOUNT-1 mean weight loss as 22.5% over 72 weeks. The correct figure is 20.9% mean weight loss in the 15 mg tirzepatide arm of SURMOUNT-1 per the published NEJM trial data (PMID: 35658024). The article has been updated.

We do not silently rewrite published claims. The original error and the correction both stay visible — readers deserve to see what changed and when.

Verification standards before publication

Every clinical claim on Weight Loss Rankings is sourced to a primary document before publication:

  • Drug efficacy and safety claims — sourced to FDA prescribing information (the official label) or to a PubMed-indexed clinical trial via PMID. We do not cite press releases, vendor blog posts, or aggregator review sites for clinical claims.
  • FDA enforcement claims — sourced to the actual FDA warning letter URL on fda.gov. If we cannot link the actual letter, we say so explicitly and label the claim as unverified.
  • Provider pricing and state coverage — sourced to the live provider page on the date of verification, with the URL stored in the provider record and the verification date surfaced in the data confidence badge.
  • Litigation claims — sourced to court records (PACER, CourtListener, Justia) with the case number visible in the article body.

Read the full editorial workflow at /editorial-policy.

Provider re-verification cadence

Provider data — pricing, state coverage, drug formulary, accreditations — is re-verified against the live provider page on a recurring cadence. The most recent verification date for each provider is visible in the data confidence badge on every review page. When a provider changes pricing or pulls out of a state, we update the record and the corresponding article gets a correction stamp if material.

What we will never do

  • Silently delete a published claim that turned out to be wrong
  • Backdate a correction to make it look like the error never happened
  • Refuse to correct an error because it would be inconvenient for an affiliate partner
  • Decline a correction request because it came from an anonymous source

If we get it wrong about you

If you operate a provider, pharmacy, or telehealth brand we cover and you believe we have published incorrect information about your business, email hello@weightlossrankings.org with the page URL and the corrected information. We do not accept payment to remove negative coverage, but we always correct factual errors regardless of whether the affected party is an affiliate partner.

Independence and conflicts of interest

Our editorial scores and rankings are produced independently of affiliate relationships. The full disclosure policy is published at /disclosure and the six-dimension scoring methodology is at /methodology. Specific conflicts that affect a particular review are disclosed inline on that review page.