Every article on this site is written by a named author who is not a medical professional, sourced to published research or official clinical guidance, and updated when the evidence changes. Nothing is published to fill a keyword.
Who writes here
One person: Dean Voss, audio engineer. There is no rotating pool of anonymous writers and no content bought by the batch. Every article carries his name, his credential, and the explicit statement that the credential is not clinical.
How an article is chosen
Articles begin with a question people are actually asking, in the words they actually use. We do not publish a piece because a keyword tool showed a gap; we publish it because there is a real question with a real answer that is currently answered badly or not at all.
If a question cannot be answered responsibly without clinical examination, what is causing your tinnitus, whether you should take something, we do not write that article. We write the article about what is known in general, and say plainly where the individual case begins.
How an article is written
- The direct answer appears at the top, in the first hundred words, before any story or context. If you only read the first paragraph, you should have the answer.
- Mechanism before advice. If we cannot explain why something happens, we do not tell you what to do about it.
- Technical terms are translated in the sentence that follows them, not left to intimidate.
- Numbers are specific or absent. “Five of eight engineers in a 2020 study” is useful. “Studies show many people” is not.
- Uncertainty is stated, not smoothed over. Where the research is thin, contradictory, or absent, the article says so in those words.
What this site will not publish
- Any claim that something cures, eliminates, reverses, or treats tinnitus.
- Any timeline for relief.
- Any diagnosis, or any language inviting you to self-diagnose.
- Before-and-after accounts or testimonials with quantified results.
- Invented or implied clinical credentials, including medical-sounding titles, stock images of people in white coats, or a fake “medical review board”.
- Content produced to be a doorway to an offer. The test applied to every article: without the affiliate link, is this still a genuinely useful page about tinnitus? If not, it is rewritten or dropped.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, we want to know and we will fix it. Corrections that change the substance of an article are noted in the article itself, with the date. Typos and clarifications are fixed silently. Write to contact@tinnitusexplained.com.
Review and updates
Articles carry a visible “updated” date, and that date moves only when the content actually changed. Pieces covering active research areas are revisited as new evidence appears. An article that can no longer be supported is corrected or removed, not quietly left up.
This site does not currently employ a clinical reviewer. If and when medical review is added, this page will name the reviewer and their credential, and the reviewed articles will say so individually. Until that happens, the absence is stated here rather than disguised.