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Picture of a white cat before and after being colored yellow through turmeric

Post:"a tiktok was circulating claiming that turmeric powder baths help remove fleas and people tried it. turns out it does work but it also dyes your cat yellow." Attached are pictures of a yellow/black cat. Reply:"Size of the bees this year"
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[–] 86 points 1 year ago (3 children)

B…but if tiktok says something is true then it must be scientifically proven, right? No one would lie on the internet, right?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    When you don't define scientifically proven then yes it is.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    "Scientifically tested" means a dude (or dudette) did something, wrote about it and published it.

    Most of it's bogus anyway.

    Which is expected. About 80% of research is low-quality: masters' theses rephrasing known stuff, articles made to fill a quota, etc.

    What "scientifically proven" means someone, including these 80% did something time and time again. And it stands. Change all the variables and it still stands: Sunscreen good, smoking bad. For kids, teenagers, adults - even animals. In summer and in winter. In small short tests of 50 and large longitudinal ones of 50.000.

    It's hard to know where to draw the line and give something the mark of "tested". But in any case, it needs to stand strongly.

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