Safety review
Open science without safety review is just a rumour mill. Every submission is screened against these rules by a human reviewer before anyone else sees it as a lead.
In plain words — how a proposed cure gets reviewed
- You send what you know, in your own words. A research paper, something you personally observed, a remedy your family or region has used for generations, or a reason an existing lead is wrong — all of it counts.
- A person checks it for harm before anyone else sees it. Nothing that tells one reader how to treat themselves, nothing that needs handling a dangerous germ, nothing with a hidden risk gets through. This takes hours, not months.
- If it sounds possible, it becomes a “lead” with an honest label. Hypothesis, in review, replicating, refuted. A lead never quietly gains confidence it has not earned, and a refuted lead stays visible.
- A real accredited lab or clinic tests it under a registered plan. The plan is posted publicly before any test runs, so nobody can quietly reshape the experiment after seeing the results.
- The result is published either way. Works, doesn't work, or unclear — every outcome goes on the challenge page with the raw data attached, so the next person starts further ahead.
The rules below are the exact version reviewers apply to every submission.
- No self-treatment content
- Nothing published here is a protocol a reader can act on alone. Submissions written as instructions are rejected, not edited.
- No pathogen work outside licensed facilities
- Work involving Yersinia pestis or any select agent is only ever assigned to accredited facilities at the correct biosafety level.
- Dosing and toxicity screened first
- Any lead involving a compound carries its known toxicity window, or is labelled as unknown. Unknown is never presented as safe.
- Honest status labels
- Hypothesis, in review, replicating, assessed, refuted. A lead never silently gains confidence it has not earned.
- Refutations rank with results
- Evidence that kills a lead is published as prominently as evidence that supports it, and refuted leads stay visible.
- Emergencies go to clinicians
- Anyone describing a live case is directed to emergency care and public health reporting, immediately and unconditionally.
If you or someone else may be ill right now, contact emergency medical care. This hub is research infrastructure and gives no medical advice.
Submit under these rules