About The Small Print · The Small Print

For everyone who never had to read a methods section.

Most of us don't read scientific papers, and not because we're not curious. It's because they weren't written for us. They were written for other scientists, reviewed by other scientists, and published in journals that most people can't access, in language that takes years to learn to decode.

But the science inside those papers belongs to everyone. Much of it was funded by public money, and much of it is directly relevant to how we understand our bodies, our health, and the world around us. Yet most of it never makes it out of the journal in one piece.

What usually happens instead is simple: a press release gets written, a journalist picks it up, and a headline gets published. However, something important gets lost at every step, not because anyone is being dishonest, but because the format doesn't leave room for nuance. A headline can't hold a confidence interval.

So, what is The Small Print?

A bilingual publication that takes real scientific studies in medicine, biomedicine, and AI, and translates them honestly for curious readers like you! Not simplified, not sensationalized, just made readable, with all the important caveats intact.

How each article is structured

What the study foundThe actual findings: what the researchers did, and what they saw.

Why it mattersContext. Why this question was worth asking in the first place.

What it doesn't proveThe part most coverage skips. What can't we conclude from this? What would we need to know more?

Important limitationsSample size, study design, conflicts of interest: the fine print of the fine print.

Real-world contextWhat does this actually mean for people outside the lab?

The Small Print §The section that gives this publication its name. The nuances, the honest interpretation, and what the headlines will probably get wrong.

Every article links to the original paper, every article is published in English and Spanish, and every article is written by someone who has spent years inside the scientific process and thinks you deserve to know what that actually looks like.

A scientific publication for general readers, designed with the editorial experience of a scientific journal.