Corrections

We try hard to be accurate, and we still get things wrong sometimes. When we do, we want to know, and we want to fix it openly. A publication that asks for your trust on a serious subject has to treat its own errors as seriously as it treats everything else. This page explains exactly how that works.

How to report something

Email support@shrinkiatry.com with three things where you can: the page, the specific claim you think is inaccurate, and a source that supports the correction. Even without a source, tell us what looks wrong and why. We read every correction request, and a good-faith report from a reader is one of the most useful things we get.

How we evaluate it

We check the claim against primary sources: the body that sets a rule, the guideline or study behind a clinical statement, the agency behind a statistic. If the evidence shows we were wrong, we fix it. If the evidence is genuinely mixed, we may revise the page to reflect that uncertainty rather than swap one overconfident claim for another. Corrections on clinical or professional points are reviewed by Shariq Refai, MD, MBA, FAPA, the same way new content is.

How we fix it

For a significant factual correction, we update the page and note that a correction was made, so the record is honest rather than quietly edited. For small fixes, like a typo, a broken link, or a formatting problem, we simply correct them without a note. Either way, the goal is a page that's accurate now and transparent about having changed.

Corrections versus updates

Not every change is a correction. Some changes are updates, meaning the facts themselves moved: a regulation changed, new data came out, a guideline was revised. We treat both seriously and revisit pages when the world moves, and we distinguish the two so a reader can tell the difference between "this was wrong" and "this is newer." Both are handled consistently with our editorial standards and our evidence methodology.

Timing and transparency

We act on clear factual errors quickly. More involved questions can take longer, because checking a claim properly against primary sources is the whole point. If you reported something, we'll do our best to let you know what we found and what we changed. Our aim is simple: when shrinkiatry is wrong, the fastest and most visible thing about the page should be that we corrected it.