Imogen Reddaway

The byline

Imogen Reddaway is a pen name. The editor behind it holds no clinical or scientific qualification, and this site has never implied one. Readers weighing a claim about their own health are entitled to know how much weight the byline itself carries, and the answer is none. The weight is in the citations.

Why the grade sits above the prose

Lactoferrin has been worked on for six decades, and a large share of the literature is cell culture written up in the register of clinical medicine. Separating those is the whole function of this site. Placing the grade before the argument removes the option of burying an unflattering one at the bottom, where nobody reads it.

Grades follow the strongest evidence available, not the newest paper or the one with the pleasing result. A claim tested properly and found wanting is recorded as such, and is often more useful to a reader than another positive finding.

When a grade moves

It moves, sometimes downward, and the page records the change with its date. Evidence accumulates and a fixed grade would mean the site had stopped reading. Being visibly wrong in public is the cost of grading anything at all.