Don’t just read the paper.
Know whether to believe it.
PaperGist reads an entire study — every figure, table, and statistic — grades how trustworthy it actually is, and turns it into something you can read, share, and post.
Paste a DOI, drop a PDF, or link an arXiv paper. No account required.
Does intermittent fasting actually work?
The research breakdown
It tells you how strong the evidence is — out loud.
A small sample, a missing control, an undisclosed conflict — PaperGist catches what gets glossed over and rates it on a rubric you can inspect. Then a second pass re-reads the paper and calibrates any claim that says more than the data shows.
- Itemized evidence grade — every criterion, rated and explained
- Effect sizes, confidence intervals & p-values for experts
- Faithfulness pass that flags & fixes overstatement
Evidence grade
Reported effect
Faithfulness check
Overstated “Coffee prevents cancer.”
Calibrated: linked to lower risk in this sample — not proven to prevent it.
The real problem
The problem was never access to research. It’s knowing what to believe.
Anyone can get a summary now. But summaries quietly mislead — and the tools meant to help make it worse.
Papers are walls of jargon
Dense methods, hedged language, stats buried in tables. Even experts lose hours; everyone else gives up.
AI summaries overstate
Peer-reviewed research found AI summaries ~5× more likely than human ones to over-generalize — and asking the model to “be faithful” makes it worse.
Royal Society Open Science, 2025
No one grades the study itself
Every tool tells you what a paper says. None tells you whether the study behind it is any good.
How it works
Three things no summarizer does
Reads the actual paper
Not a text scrape. PaperGist ingests the real PDF — figures, tables, and statistics where the findings actually live — and reconstructs the numbers honestly.
Grades the evidence
A transparent rubric scores design, sample size, controls, bias, rigor, conflicts, and reproducibility — adapted to the field. The trust score is never a black box.
Verifies its own claims
A second, adversarial pass re-reads the source and flags any place the write-up says more than the paper supports — then shows the calibrated version.
One analysis, two readers
For the curious — and the expert in a hurry
The same finding, rendered for whoever you are. Flip a switch.
People who fasted 16 hours a day lost a little more weight than those who didn’t — but the difference was small, and the study only ran 12 weeks, so we can’t say it lasts.
16:8 TRE vs. control: −1.6 kg (95% CI −2.9 to −0.3), p=0.02, n=212, 12-week RCT.
Δweight −1.6 kg · CI[−2.9,−0.3] · p=0.02 · n=212
“In an age of confident, AI-generated answers, the rarest and most valuable thing is an honest ‘this evidence is weak.’ PaperGist is built to say it.”
Who it’s for
Anyone who needs the truth of a paper, fast
Clinicians & researchers
Triage journal-club papers and judge evidence in minutes, not evenings.
Students & trainees
Understand primary literature — and learn what makes a study strong.
Journalists & creators
Report findings accurately, with the caveats most coverage drops.
Curious minds & leaders
Decide on real evidence — and spot the studies that don’t hold up.
Read the next paper like an expert. In plain English.
Drop in a study and see its data, its findings, and exactly how much to trust it.
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