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The Value Forge is in alpha. This page turns the publication’s own ethos on itself: name the gap, state honest scope. Tell us what’s wrong, unclear, or missing.

We don’t write back. There is no email field on the form and no correspondence behind it. Submissions are collected and reviewed, in part automatically; yours may change what gets published, may change nothing, and may not be read individually. There is one editor and a largely automated production process, and an open promise to answer everyone is a promise that would be broken. Set your expectations low — we would rather say so than imply a dialogue we cannot staff.

The answer, when there is one, is public. That is what the record below is for. Where something sent here changes what we do, it goes there: what was said, what we did, anonymised. Not every submission appears — most won’t — but that record is how you find out, and it is the same record everyone else sees. A publication that answers privately and publishes nothing has told one person something and the rest of its readers nothing.

One thing we hold ourselves to. If you show us a published claim is factually wrong, we correct it and say so in the open, dated, at Corrections — no conditions on who may raise it. We judge what is substantiated, evidence will sometimes go against you, and a challenge that does not result in a correction may pass without any public trace. That is the whole of the promise, and it is deliberately small enough to keep.

The form asks for nothing that identifies you — no name, no email, no account. It is designed to hold no personal data at all, which is why there is nothing here to request, correct, or erase. Please don’t put your name, anyone else’s, or patient detail in the free-text box; it isn’t wanted and it will be deleted. The one exception is if you are asking us to erase your subscription to the email edition — for that we do need the address, and Privacy explains it.