Primary law, agency records, trial registries, peer-reviewed papers, and official public records.
Standards
Editorial standards
Source weighting, evidence confidence, medical boundaries, cultural limits, corrections, and conflicts of interest.
Source weighting
Serious journalism, institutional reports, books, interviews, documentaries, and conference material.
Company releases, clinic pages, social posts, podcasts, newsletters, and marketing material.
Public Gabonese, Bwiti-linked, conservation, stewardship, and community-engagement material, handled with explicit limits.
Evidence language
- Established: high-confidence facts such as U.S. Schedule I status or repeated safety concerns in the literature.
- Promising: early human findings, observational signals, or plausible mechanisms that deserve further study.
- Preliminary: small samples, case reports, uncontrolled designs, animal studies, or mechanistic hypotheses.
- Claim: a statement made by a clinic, company, media guest, social post, or advocate that needs independent support.
- Overstated: language such as "cure," "guaranteed," or "safe because natural" when sources do not support it.
Medical and legal boundaries
This is not medical advice or legal advice. Ibogaine remains Schedule I federally in the United States, is not FDA-approved as a treatment, and carries serious cardiac and interaction risks.
Cultural boundaries
Public history, terminology, conservation, access, benefit-sharing, and published interviews can be cited and compared. Initiation instructions, lineage-held ceremonial songs or chants, private ritual sequences, sacred designs, dosing instructions, and claims about Bwiti authority belong with authorized holders.
Corrections
Corrections change the public page, preserve the source trail when possible, and appear in the changes feed when they affect interpretation.