About Curioler
We are caregiver parents. After our son's diagnosis we spent a lot of nights reading — studies we couldn't parse, advice with nothing behind it, and confident claims that turned out to be someone's marketing. The thing we wanted didn't exist: somewhere that says plainly what the research found, and how much weight it can hold.
Research made easy
Peer-reviewed research, summarised in plain language, with the sample size and the limitations kept in rather than edited out.
Fact checks
Claims you will actually run into, checked against the evidence — including the ones where the honest answer is that nobody knows yet.
Experiences
First-hand accounts from caregiver families. What they tried, what happened, and what they'd tell you.
Who built it
Curioler is built by Bhavin Solanki, a data scientist with an MSc in Biostatistics who has spent his career applying data and AI to problems in health and research. It grew out of a personal need — navigating autism research as a caregiver and finding most of it inaccessible, paywalled, or written for people who already have a clinical background.
How AI is used
Every research summary and fact check here is researched and structured with the help of AI — specifically Claude, by Anthropic. It searches for peer-reviewed sources, pulls out the structured detail, and drafts the plain-language write-up.
Everything published is reviewed first, and the AI does not invent sources — every link points at a real paper. But AI can still misread a study, overstate how certain something is, or miss context that matters. If you spot an error, tell us and we will fix it.
How we grade trust
Everything carries a visible tier, from peer-reviewed research through to one family's experience. The tier is always shown, so you are never guessing how solid the ground is.
- Tier 1 · Strong research evidenceSystematic reviews and meta-analyses — the strongest form of evidence there is.
- Tier 2 · Research evidenceAn individual peer-reviewed study, or a small trial.
- Tier 3 · Clinical consensusWhat practitioners broadly agree on, where no direct study exists.
- Tier 4 · Professional guidanceGuidance from a qualified professional or body, rather than a study.
- Tier 5 · Community experiencePatterns reported across many caregiver families.
- Tier 6 · Individual experienceOne family's account of what happened to them.
What a fact-check verdict means
- MythClearly contradicted by strong evidence.
- MisleadingContains truth, but leads to the wrong conclusion.
- NuancedPartly true, or true only in particular circumstances.
- SupportedWell supported by strong evidence.
- Insufficient evidenceNot enough quality research to say either way.
This is not medical advice
Nothing here replaces your child's clinicians. It is meant to make the conversations you have with them better informed — see our disclaimer.
Free to read. No account needed. Contact us if something here is wrong, and we will fix it.