VIRAL VITALISM FRAMEWORKS
Health information moves fast. Hype moves faster. Viral Vitalism uses public scoring frameworks to slow claims down just enough to ask what happened, who says so, what the evidence shows, what it does not show, and what readers should avoid overclaiming.
The core Viral Vitalism framework for classifying health claims by evidence type, biological plausibility, uncertainty, incentives, risk, and human relevance.
Explore the matrix ->Viral VitalismThe scoring model used to summarize how strong, useful, risky, speculative, or actionable a claim appears based on the available evidence.
Understand the score ->Viral VitalismThe rapid-brief framework for deciding whether a moving health story is timely, source-backed, important, and bounded enough to publish.
Read the brief matrix ->Viral VitalismA derived editorial signal score for rapid briefs, combining source proximity, verification, urgency, human relevance, importance, overclaim risk, and follow-up value.
Read the score model ->Viral VitalismThe claim-ledger framework for separating exact bounded claims from broader hype, mechanism leaps, and public overclaim risk.
Read the claim matrix ->Viral VitalismA public score for how well a reviewed claim is supported, bounded, sourced, risk-aware, and connected inside the evidence graph.
Read the score model ->Viral VitalismA source-role matrix that asks whether a source is strong for the claim lane being used: regulatory status, outcomes, mechanism, safety, consumer context, or trial discovery.
Read the trust matrix ->Viral VitalismA use-case-specific score that keeps a source from being treated as equally strong for every kind of health claim.
Read the fit score ->Viral VitalismThe study framework for translating papers, labels, registries, and reviews into public context without overstating what they prove.
Read the study matrix ->Viral VitalismA score for how much weight a study can reasonably carry in public explanation, bounded by design, population, endpoint, limitations, and safety usefulness.
Read the score model ->Viral VitalismThe confusion layer created when marketing, memes, mechanisms, anecdotes, and partial evidence blur into the same feed.
Clear the fog ->Viral VitalismA framework for understanding how health ideas spread online without mistaking virality for evidence.
Read the framework ->Viral VitalismA practical lens for deciding which claims deserve attention, tracking, skepticism, or dismissal.
Find the signal ->Viral VitalismThe worldview behind the publication: health information changed, so the filters need to evolve.
Read the thesis ->Dimensions and weights
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Dimensions and weights
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Gates and caps
Dimensions and weights
Bands
Gates and caps
Dimensions and weights
Bands
Gates and caps
Anecdote or case-level evidence
reported, described, case-level, early signal, worth watching
Early evidence
may, suggests, preliminary trial evidence, needs replication
Moderate evidence
associated with, linked to, trial evidence supports, observed in this population
Strong evidence
shown in randomized trials, supported by meta-analysis, approved for, label includes
Highest caution terms
avoid proves, cures, prevents, guarantees, risk-free, miracle, detoxes unless directly supported
Viral Vitalism is an educational publication, not medical advice.
