An editorial desk, not a practice.
Cairn Post exists to describe what behavioural research says, at the level of detail where the caveats are still visible. It publishes nothing else.
Who publishes this
Cairn Post is an independent editorial project operated from Brazil. It is not affiliated with any university, laboratory, clinic, professional body, publisher or research institution, and none of the researchers named in the library have any involvement with this site or have reviewed its contents.
The desk is small. Correspondence is handled by email at support@cairnpost.site, generally within two business days. There is no office open to visitors and no telephone line.
How subjects are chosen
An idea qualifies for the library when it circulates widely outside the journals and there is a body of peer-reviewed work against which the popular version can be checked. That combination is what makes an entry worth writing: the gap between the two accounts is usually where the interesting material is.
Subjects with no serious published literature are not covered, however popular. Neither are live controversies where the evidence is too thin in every direction for a description to be useful.
How sources are handled
- Authors, publication and year are named in the entry, so the original can be located.
- Where a result has failed to reproduce, that appears in the same entry as the result, not in a later note.
- Effect sizes are described qualitatively where the underlying estimates are disputed, rather than presenting one figure as settled.
- No statistic appears without a traceable source. Round numbers with no citation are not used.
- Where a researcher has publicly revised a position, the revision is reported alongside the original claim.
How Cairn Post advertises
Advertising for this publication follows the same rule the editorial pages follow: nothing is assumed about the person seeing it.
- Advertisements describe the subject matter of an entry. They do not state or imply anything about the viewer's circumstances, relationships, health, finances, beliefs, abilities or personal history.
- No advertisement asks a question whose premise would only apply to a person in a particular situation.
- The destination page matches the advertisement. An advertisement referring to a specific entry links to that entry, and the page reached contains what the advertisement described.
- No advertisement contains a testimonial, a result, a claim of improvement, a countdown, a limited-availability notice, or a before-and-after comparison.
- Cairn Post does not target advertising on the basis of health status, and does not build or purchase audiences defined by any sensitive personal characteristic.
Corrections
Errors are corrected on the page where they appeared. Substantive corrections, meaning any change that alters what an entry claims about a study, are noted at the foot of the entry with the date and a description of what changed. Typographical fixes are made without notice.
Correction requests go to support@cairnpost.site and are more useful when they identify the sentence and the source that contradicts it.
Commercial disclosure
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