Editorial standards

Purpose

This document sets out the editorial standards applied to every piece of content published on Pepticker: peptide guides, vendor profiles, news updates, newsletter content, and sponsored placements.

Named authors and editorial review

• Every guide is bylined — to a named individual where one exists, or to the Pepticker editorial team where the piece is a collective product.
• Editorial review (fact-checking, citation auditing, copy-editing) is currently performed by the Pepticker editorial team. We do not yet retain licensed clinical reviewers on staff.
• We are actively recruiting licensed clinical reviewers (PharmD, MD, or DO) to add a layer of medical review on top of editorial review. When a guide has received clinical review, the reviewer’s name and credentials appear on the page; until then, the page displays a “Pending Clinical Review” status. We surface that status rather than hiding it behind unverifiable claims.
• Any future clinical reviewer will be insulated from vendor selection and affiliate-commission decisions — the reviewer signs off on the medical content of a guide, not on the commercial layer of the site.

Sourcing and citations

• All clinical or scientific claims cite primary literature (PubMed, clinicaltrials.gov, regulatory filings) or peer-reviewed secondary sources.
• Every citation links to the original source. Paywalled sources are clearly labeled.
• We do not cite Reddit, forum posts, or vendor marketing material as evidence for clinical or pharmacological claims. These sources may be cited as indicators of community sentiment, clearly labeled as such.

Conflict-of-interest disclosure

• Every comparison page carries an affiliate-disclosure banner.
• Author bios disclose material conflicts of interest: consulting relationships, equity ownership, vendor partnerships, paid speaking engagements.
• Sponsored placements are always labeled “Sponsored — Verified.”

Separation of editorial and commercial

No vendor, advertiser, or sponsor has editorial control over our content, rankings, scoring outcomes, or inclusion decisions. No one outside our editorial team sees content before publication, except legal counsel on request and (once the program is live) any clinical reviewer assigned to the specific page.

Updating and versioning

• Every page shows a “Last updated” date in the header.
• When material changes are made to a published page, the date advances and (where relevant) a changelog appears at the bottom.
• Prices update at the data layer and do not trigger a content “update” event — only changes to editorial narrative do.

Anonymous and pseudonymous contributors

We accept pseudonymous contribution in limited circumstances (e.g., medical professionals whose employers restrict public writing), subject to verification of credentials by the editor-in-chief. Pseudonyms are disclosed as such.

AI-assisted content

AI tooling is used in drafting, editing, and data extraction. Every published piece is reviewed, fact-checked, and signed off by a named human editor. No page is published without human review. We disclose AI assistance on the methodology page.