most confidently repeated claim that falls apart when you check it?

ShowMeTheDataSenior Analyst

Not outright lies. The confidently repeated things that fall apart when you follow the source.

Mine: "it's been used safely for decades". Follow that back and it usually means it has EXISTED for decades, which is a completely different claim. Absence of documented problems in a population nobody was documenting isn't a safety record.

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  • unconvinced_stillSenior Analyst

    Best example in the category. "No reported problems" requires someone to have been doing the reporting, and in an unregulated space nobody is.

    6 upvotes

  • deload_weekAnalyst

    "used safely for decades" is on every single product page lol

    5 upvotes

  • preclinical_onlySenior Analyst

    "Studies show" followed by a rodent citation. Not wrong exactly, studies do show it, in rats. But the phrase carries an implication the citation doesn't.

    5 upvotes

  • in_vitro_caveatSenior Analyst

    "Shown to increase collagen synthesis" where the demonstration is fibroblasts in a dish.

    4 upvotes

  • newvialwhodisSenior Analyst

    "pharma grade" go in here?

    3 upvotes

  • same_tbhSenior Analyst

    every one of these is on my old reading list

    2 upvotes

  • BDNFquestionSenior Analyst

    Any sentence where a biomarker change is stated as the outcome.

    4 upvotes

  • approved_vs_notSenior Analyst

    "It's approved" without the indication.

    4 upvotes

  • quick_qSenior Analyst

    what about "clinically studied"?

    3 upvotes

  • cold_chainSenior Analyst

    "Stable at room temperature" applied to a mixed vial when the source was about powder.

    3 upvotes

  • ShowMeTheDataSenior Analyst

    All of these are the same shape. True claim about one thing, repeated about another.

    3 upvotes

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