Editorial policy

Voxsanity republishes information about clinical trials and medicine supply from public registries. This page sets out how we decide what to publish, what we will never do, and how you can hold us to it.

We would rather be checkable than reassuring. Everything below is written so that you could catch us breaking it.

Source text is shown word for word, with credit

Where this site shows text from a registry or a public health source, it is that source's own wording, shown as published, with the source named beside it and a link to the original.

We do not summarise it. We do not shorten it. We do not rewrite it into a house style, and we do not correct it, even where we think it is wrong. If a source publishes something we believe to be an error, the right response is to tell the source, not to quietly edit what they said while still crediting them for it.

What we do change is layout. A trial record is reordered into plain headings, Australian sites are shown first, and the registry's formatting is converted for the web. The words are the registry's. The data sources page names every source and the terms it sets.

Nothing here is written by AI

No text a reader sees on this site is generated by an AI model. Not a summary, not a description of a condition, not an explanation of an eligibility criterion, not a heading.

This site used to publish AI-written plain English summaries, clearly labelled. It no longer does, and the reason is simple. A summary of a clinical eligibility criterion is the kind of text a person acts on, and a model can produce a wrong one that reads perfectly well. Labelling it did not fix that. So the text a reader gets is the source's own words, shown as published and credited to that source.

If you find anything on this site that reads as though a model wrote it, please tell us. That would be a defect.

Nothing on this site is paid for

Voxsanity is free to read and takes no money from anyone. There is no subscription, no paid tier, no advertising, no sponsorship and no paid placement. There is nothing on this site that anybody has paid to put there.

That is the current state of the business, and it makes the rest of this section short. To be concrete, all of the following are things Voxsanity will not do:

No paid placement in listings or results. What appears, and in what order, is decided by the data: whether a trial is open, whether it has an Australian site, its phase, and how recently the registry updated it. Nobody can pay to appear higher, or to appear at all.
No paid removal or softening. We will not remove a trial or reword a record because a sponsor, a manufacturer or anybody else asked us to. Corrections are made because something is factually wrong, and for no other reason.
No advance preview. Nobody outside this site sees, approves or influences what is published before it is published.
No advertising. There are no ad units on any page, and no advertising network is loaded by any page.

If that ever changes, this page will say what the paid feature is, who pays for it, and what it does not buy, before it launches.

Independence from the sources we use

Voxsanity depends on public data providers, including ClinicalTrials.gov, ISRCTN and the Therapeutic Goods Administration, and we hold licence terms or written permission from some of them. None of that gives a provider any say over how their data appears here.

We use a source because it is accurate and useful, not because of any relationship. A provider cannot obtain a softer description, a better position, or the removal of an unflattering record by virtue of one. Where a permission requires us to reproduce a provider's wording unchanged, as the TGA's does, we do that and say so. That is a constraint on us, not influence for them.

What coverage means

Coverage means which conditions get a page on this site, and what appears on it.

Voxsanity covers 149 conditions. That list was chosen on public health grounds: how many people in Australia are affected, and whether people with that condition have few options and little plain language information. It was also constrained by whether the registries we depend on hold usable records for it.

When we expand the list, the same test applies. A condition is added because people in Australia need the information. Never because somebody asked, and never because somebody offered to pay. Coverage is not for sale in either direction: we will not sell a place on the list, and we will not sell an absence from it.

What appears on a condition page is whatever the registries say. We do not curate that set to anyone's advantage. Our data coverage page sets out what is missing and which way each gap is likely to be wrong.

Corrections

We publish what we have corrected. The corrections page lists each correction, what was wrong, and when it was fixed.

How a correction works:

You tell us. Every trial, condition and medicine page has a way to report an issue, and there is also the contact page. Tell us what is wrong and, if you can, where you saw the right answer.
We check it against the source. A report is checked against the registry or source record, not against our own copy of it.
If the source is right and we are wrong, we fix it and record it. The fix goes live and the correction is listed on the corrections page.
If the source itself is wrong, we say so rather than edit it. We do not silently change a source's words. Where we can, we report it to the source.
We reply to you. We read every report and answer as soon as we can.

Corrections work the same way regardless of who benefits. We do not fix flattering errors faster than unflattering ones, and a correction that embarrasses us is treated exactly like one that embarrasses somebody else. Accuracy is the only test.

Who is accountable

Final editorial authority rests with Voxsanity Pty Ltd (ABN 82 700 348 867). There is no editorial board and no medical review panel, and no content on this site has been reviewed by a health professional. Saying otherwise would be exactly the kind of reassuring fiction this page exists to avoid.

Nothing here is medical advice, and nothing here is a substitute for talking to your own doctor or pharmacist.

If you believe we have broken this policy, report it through the contact page and tell us what you think we got wrong and why. We would rather hear it from you than not hear it at all.