Plan Continuation
Marine and aviation investigators have a name for it: plan continuation. Having committed to a course, contrary information gets explained away rather than acted on — and the further along you are, the harder it is resisted. The same machinery runs on anyone who has been taking something for six months.
What you already believe changes how hard you examine what you read. These three are what we do about that.
We state what kind of evidence would settle a question before reporting what the evidence says. A standard chosen after seeing the answer is not a standard, and writing it down first is the only defence either of us has against adjusting it to taste.
Knowing that you reason with a stake in the answer does not remove the stake. A clinician has no position on whether your supplement was a good purchase, which is a specific and underrated advantage of asking one rather than continuing to read.
We sell a guide, so we benefit if you find this framework convincing — and the framework says to be sceptical of parties who benefit. That tension is real and we would rather name it than hope it goes unnoticed. We sell no supplement, hold no affiliate arrangement, and publish no testimonials.
This is about how you weigh a purchase, not about how you weigh medical advice. The bias described here operates on things you chose and paid for. A recommendation from a clinician is not a position you talked yourself into, and applying this scepticism to it would be a misuse of the idea. If anything here makes you inclined to stop something a doctor prescribed, that is the signal to ask them rather than to decide.
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If we have moved a standard after seeing a result anywhere on this site, that is the failure this page is about. Point at it and the correction goes up in public.