Corrections

Telling us something is wrong

Email corrections@glpwatchdog.org. Three things make a report checkable straight away:

• The page, and the sentence or number on it
• What it should say instead
• Where that can be seen — a URL, a registration record, a letter. If a price only appears past an intake form, say which answers get there.

You do not have to say who you are. An anonymous report with a working link beats a signed one without.

Three kinds of edit, handled differently

The distinction matters because calling everything a correction makes the word useless, and calling nothing a correction is how sites quietly rewrite their history.

1. A correction — the page said something untrue. A wrong price, a study cited for a finding it does not contain, an enforcement action attributed to the wrong company, a state listed that is not served. The page gets a dated correction notice saying what it used to say, dateModified updates, and the record goes back through verification rather than being spot-fixed.
2. An update — the page was true and the world moved. A seller raised its price, a trial reported, an agency acted. The body changes and the reviewed date moves. This is not a correction and is not labeled as one.
3. A copy edit — a typo, a broken link, a clumsy sentence. Nothing dated, nothing announced.

What a correction notice looks like

It names the old claim. A notice that only states the new figure tells the reader nothing about whether they were misled, which is the entire point of publishing one. Format:

Correction (2026-04-15): this article previously gave mean weight loss in SURMOUNT-1 as 22.5% over 72 weeks. The figure in the published trial is 20.9%, in the 15 mg tirzepatide arm (NEJM, PMID 35658024). Corrected.

The wrong version stays described in the notice. We do not delete the sentence and move on.

What has to be true before something publishes

• Clinical claims come from the FDA label or a PubMed-indexed paper cited by PMID, and the PMID is checked to be the paper we say it is. A real identifier attached to the wrong study is a harder error to catch than a fabricated one, so identifiers get verified rather than copied. No press releases, no vendor blogs, no other comparison sites.
• Enforcement claims link the actual letter on fda.gov, matched to a company by domain and address. Never by name resemblance: two firms with similar names are not the same firm, and publishing that mistake would be defamatory.
• Prices come off the seller’s own checkout on a recorded date, and are published with that date. Where the billing cycle is not a calendar month, or the figure is promotional, or it requires a prepaid term, the entry says so.
• Litigation carries the case number.

Where we cannot verify something, the page says it is unverified rather than omitting the doubt. The full workflow is at /editorial-policy.

Prices go stale, which is a correction problem

A price is a fact about the day it was read. Sellers change them without announcement, so every review carries the date its figures were last checked, and a stale date is visible to you rather than hidden. When a re-check finds the price moved, that is an update. When it finds the price was never right, that is a correction.

Things we will not do

• Delete a wrong claim without saying it was there
• Date a correction to make the error look shorter-lived
• Leave an error standing because fixing it embarrasses a company that pays us, or because fixing it embarrasses us
• Ignore a report because it arrived anonymously
• Treat a company’s objection as a correction when no fact is in dispute

If we got something wrong about your company

Send the page and the evidence to corrections@glpwatchdog.org and it gets checked on the same terms as anyone else’s report. Accurate findings do not come down, and no commercial relationship changes that in either direction — see the code of conduct. But if we printed something untrue about you, correcting it is not a favor we are doing you. It is the job.