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Who publishes this, and on what terms
The Long Table is an independent publication. It operates from Brazil, has no physical premises open to the public, and is reachable only by email at support@thelongtable.pro. It publishes in English because the research it summarises is published in English and its readership is largely in English-speaking countries.
It is a small operation. There is no newsroom, no advisory board, and no institutional affiliation. Nobody who writes for The Long Table holds a clinical licence, and the publication does not present itself as speaking with clinical authority.
How subjects are chosen
A subject qualifies when there is a body of published research on it substantial enough to summarise, and when that body of research contains internal disagreement worth reporting. Topics with a single study behind them are not covered. Topics where the interesting part is the argument between researchers are preferred, because that argument is usually what gets removed when findings are repeated outside the journals.
How sources are cited
Every study mentioned in a note is named with its authors, year and place of publication, and listed at the foot of the page. Studies are described from the published papers, not from press releases or secondary summaries. Where a paper's own authors state a limitation, that limitation is reported in the note. Where a published critique of a paper exists, it is reported alongside the paper rather than omitted.
No figure appears without the study it came from. Where the evidence for a claim is contested, the note says so in the same paragraph as the claim rather than qualifying it later or elsewhere.
What this publication does not do
- It does not give advice, whether professional, clinical or personal.
- It does not answer questions about a reader's own circumstances, and does not offer consultations.
- It does not publish testimonials, reviews, ratings, reader stories or before-and-after accounts, and does not solicit them. Individual accounts cannot be generalised, and in a publication of this kind they are easily read as a claim about what a reader can expect. That is not a claim The Long Table is in a position to make.
- It does not state or imply that reading anything published here produces an outcome.
- It does not accept sponsored placements or paid mentions of third-party products.
How we advertise
The Long Table promotes its pages through paid advertising on social platforms and search engines. Three rules govern that advertising, and they are stated here so that they can be checked against what actually runs.
- Advertisements presume nothing about the people who see them. They do not assert or suggest knowledge of a viewer's relationship, household, health, circumstances or state of mind. They describe what an article is about, in the third person, in the same register the article uses.
- The destination matches the advertisement. An advertisement referring to one of the notes leads to that note, at the address shown, with the content it described. There is no intermediate page, no different version of the page for different visitors, and no content behind the link that was not represented in the advertisement.
- No outcome is offered. Advertisements make no promise about results, contain no urgency or scarcity device, and use no language suggesting a method, system or formula that produces an effect.
Where an advertisement is found not to meet these rules, it is withdrawn rather than edited into compliance after the fact.
Corrections
Errors are corrected on the page where they appeared, with a dated note at the foot of that page describing what changed. Pages are not silently rewritten. Corrections to a factual claim, a citation or an author's name are made as soon as they are confirmed against the source. Requests for correction go to support@thelongtable.pro; including a link to the original study is the fastest route to a resolution.
Where a study cited here is subsequently retracted or substantially corrected by its own journal, the note referring to it is updated to say so.
Commercial disclosure
The notes listed on the home page are free to read and carry no advertising. The Long Table also offers written publications for sale. Where that is the case, the price, the format, the delivery method and the refund period are stated in full on the page where the purchase is made, before payment. Payment is processed by a third-party payment provider, which is identified at the point of purchase; The Long Table does not store card details. Refund terms are set out on the refunds page.
The publication has no other revenue. It receives no funding from institutions, receives no payment for mentioning any product or service, and has no commercial relationship with any researcher, publisher or journal named in the notes.