Health Disclaimer

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Validity is not medical advice

Validity is a general wellness product. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, mitigate or prevent any disease or medical condition, and it is not a medical device.

Nothing here is a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always ask a qualified healthcare professional about your health, and before starting, stopping or changing any diet, exercise programme, supplement or medication. Never disregard professional advice, or delay seeking it, because of something you read on Validity.

If you think you may have a medical emergency, call 911 or your local emergency number.

What the scores are, and are not

Your wellness scores come from answers you give about your own habits, measurements and symptoms. They are calculated on your device using published wellness standards, and they describe general wellness only.

A Validity score is not:

• a diagnosis, or a screening test
• a measurement — we take no readings from any sensor or device
• a risk estimate for any disease or condition
• clinically validated, or equivalent to any FDA-cleared product
• a reason to start, stop or change any treatment

A score is a structured way of looking at what you told us about how you live. Nothing more.

Where an answer falls outside the range our scoring covers, we say so plainly and suggest talking to a healthcare professional — rather than producing a number that could reassure you when it should not.

What the expert map is

Validity reports what named experts have publicly said, paraphrased in our words and linked to the source.

We report. We do not judge. Validity never states that a claim is true, effective, safe or advisable. That someone appears here is not our endorsement of them, or theirs of us. Experts frequently disagree with each other, and sometimes with their own earlier statements; where we know of that, we show both sides and say the order is what it is.

Do not treat anything on Validity as a recommendation to do it. Treat it as a record of what a particular person said, on a particular date, in a particular place — with a link so you can read it yourself and decide.

Many experts we cover hold medical or scientific credentials. We deliberately do not display them, because showing credentials alongside health claims implies clinical authority we are not offering.

Individual results

People differ. Age, medical history, medications, genetics and circumstances all change what is appropriate for a given person. Nothing on Validity is tailored to you, and general information cannot be.

Accuracy

We link every claim to its source and publish our own measured error rates rather than asking for your trust. We may still be wrong. If you find an error, email corrections@validity.health — we act on corrections.

How Validity works

Methodology — the honest version.

Where claims come from

We read what experts publish in public: articles, newsletters, books and podcast episodes. We identify claims, paraphrase each in our own words in 30 words or fewer, and record where it came from.

We never reproduce source text. No transcripts, no article copies, no verbatim quotes. A paraphrase and a link, always.

How we check ourselves

Every claim passes automated checks before it is stored: the source link must point at text that actually supports the claim; the paraphrase must be within length and must not be a lightly-reworded copy; the speaker must be on our roster; the source must belong to that speaker.

Then a separate model, different from the one that extracted the claim, is asked to refute it — to argue the paraphrase is unfaithful, the topic wrong, the stance wrong. Several do so independently and the majority rules. Uncertainty counts as a refutation, deliberately, so the number we publish errs against us.

What we get wrong

We publish our measured error rate by category, and update it as the corpus grows.

A limit we will not hide: for claims drawn from podcasts we delete the transcript after processing, because we do not think it is ours to keep. That protects the source, and it means nobody — including us — can later re-verify the paraphrase against the original audio. Those claims are counted as unverifiable, never as passing. Roughly [X]% of claims are in that category. Article claims do not have this problem; their sources are publicly archived and re-checkable.

Silence is data

When a topic page says nine of ten experts are not on record, that is a finding, not a gap in our work. It means we found nothing published by them on it. We show it rather than quietly narrowing the denominator.

What we do not do

• No grades, rankings or accuracy scores for any expert. We are not in the business of telling you who to trust.
• No adjudicating disagreements. Where experts differ we show the difference; we do not pick a winner.
• No government sources. A deliberate editorial choice about independence, not a comment on their quality.
• No advertising, affiliate links, sponsored placements or third-party tracking. Members pay for Validity. Nobody can buy their way onto it, or off it.

Corrections

Email corrections@validity.health. If we got something wrong we fix it and say what changed.