Scientific Writing
Purpose
Produce clear scientific prose without inventing evidence or concealing uncertainty. Keep drafting, evidence verification, and submission approval as separate stages.
The accountable human authors control scientific decisions and final approval. AI is not an author, and generated fluency is never evidence [SW-S01, SW-S03].
Non-negotiable safety rules
Confidentiality
Do not send unpublished manuscripts, peer-review or editorial material, sensitive or restricted data, PHI or other personal data, proprietary content, or source documents to an external service without:
- explicit authorization from a person or body empowered to grant it; and
- a documented review of journal, institutional, funder, consent, ethics, contractual, legal, and data-use policy.
When authorization or policy is unclear, keep processing local and use only the minimum
metadata needed. De-identification requires expert review; removing obvious names is
not sufficient. See references/authorship_ai_confidentiality.md.
No fabrication
Never invent or complete:
- citations, references, DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, URLs, or quotations;
- results, data values, denom…
