Had some fun today on the nonsense aisle First up - sleep supplement!pic.twitter.com/DmtaC9QaFL
Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him
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Had some fun today on the nonsense aisle First up - sleep supplement!pic.twitter.com/DmtaC9QaFL
Gotta love this "based on traditional evidence" Helps to relieve nervous tension and promote sleep? Sounds amazing!pic.twitter.com/QIoz2XueGI
Sadly, these are the ingredients Valeria - no evidence Licorice- no evidence Hops - no evidence Smilax China - cannot find a single study Amenarrhena - no evidencepic.twitter.com/YEX5X33N0h
No evidence can mean a lot of things
For some of these ingredients, systematic review evidence has failed to find any benefit
For others, the studies just have not been done at all 
Next, immune defence Sounds snazzypic.twitter.com/dych8LulmL
This one's based on scientific evidence That sounds promisingpic.twitter.com/oejc81seRZ
This is a lovely example of what some people call weasel words Try to pick out a specific claim here - it's almost impossiblepic.twitter.com/pRHUvS5Ehd
"Help relieve symptoms of the common cold" Well since it's a hot drink it probably will You know what else can do that (with the same ingredients) for half the price A CUP OF HERBAL TEA!
But what we can say is that a number of large well convicted trials have failed to find any benefit for Echinacea for treating colds Rose hips and hibiscus have not really been studied for this application much at all
If you put "based on scientific evidence" on a product, you should have to link to the goddam studiespic.twitter.com/4q8Nk1Gdf0
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