About this site
Editorial policy
Built from index records dated 2026-10-13 Compiled by an automated pipeline, checked by The Peptide Observer editorial desk How this site works
Every page on this site is compiled automatically from a structured research index, checked for citations and banned wording, and then held back from search if it could be mistaken for medical guidance.
How topics are chosen
Topics are chosen by what people actually search for, measured rather than guessed. Measurement is less tidy than it sounds. The phrase "are peptides legal" was measured on two separate instruments on 2026-10-12: one returned 9,900 searches a month and the other returned 1,274 for the same phrase in the same country.
Both are printed here because neither is the truth. They are two instruments disagreeing, and adding them together, or quietly picking the larger one, would be the kind of small dishonesty this site is supposed to avoid.
What is checked on every page
- every cited source id resolves to a sources[] row on the entity
- every identifier is a well-formed PMID or DOI
- study model derived only from assigned MeSH headings and publication types
- banned-phrase lint over rendered HTML including title, meta, alt and JSON-LD
- unknown values render as the literal word Unknown
What is not checked, ever
- no full text was read
- no clinical appraisal of any study
- no assessment of whether the indexed set is representative of the literature
When a page is held back
A page is built and then withheld from search if the name it describes is shared with an approved medicine, if its records include trials in people, or if it sits in the weight and metabolic group. Any one of those is enough. Nothing is deleted, and recording a qualified reviewer publishes the page on the next build. The rule, explained at length.
Money
No payment of any kind decides what this publication explains, which records it counts, which it leaves out, or what it records as unknown. Where a paid placement appears it sits in a labelled block at the foot of a page, below everything the page is actually about, and it is never placed inside a sentence carrying a fact, inside a figure, or inside a list of sources.
No payment secures a page, a mention inside the text, a change to a count, or the removal of a line saying something is unknown. If that ever stops being true, this paragraph changes first.
Corrections
A number on this site is wrong if it does not match the record it is attached to. That is the only kind of error this site can correct, and it is corrected by fixing the index and rebuilding, which changes every page carrying the number at once.
A disagreement about what the research means is not a correction, because no page here states what the research means.