Editorial Policy

This policy applies to original content created and published by members of the Skeptical Science author team.

General

Our team of authors write for and publish on Skeptical Science with editorial guidance from John Cook, Bärbel Winkler, Doug Bostrom and Dana Nuccitelli. Original blog posts, new rebuttals or updates to existing rebuttals are reviewed internally before publication and if we don’t have the needed expertise within our team sent out for external review by subject matter experts.

Commentary

We clearly indicate when a blog post is the equivalent of an academic journal's inclusion of commentary or synthesis article (see this blog post for some context).

Corrections to published content

Rebuttals

When we discover and correct an error in our rebuttal articles, we clearly flag this for readers as a boxed note at the end of a corrected article. This notice of corrective action remains in view for readers until such time as the affected rebuttal is substantially revised as part of our routine process of maintaining our content in keeping with scientific progress. 

Blog posts

In case of discovered errors in blog posts published by Skeptical Science authors, we review the issue internally and take needed action to correct the error. The requirement for and action of correction will be obviously flagged as per corrected rebuttals and - if warranted - a follow-up Errata article (like this example from February 2023).

Means to provide feedback

There are several means for readers to let us know about errors, which they can do publicly in the comment threads for rebuttals and blog posts, privately via our contact form or via a dedicated Google-form linked at the bottom of each rebuttal.