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  • paddyrg
    paddyrg Posts: 13,543 Forumite
    I have searched it online from <website selling stuff> ,see if this would help you to clear your doubts.

    That's not research, that's sales. That's like any other spurious health claims made by a vendor, there may be anecdotal evidence, but you need a higher standard of proof than that for baby products. The stuff might be incredible, non toxic, doubles lifespan, promote growth and win the X-factor but fact is you've still got to be able to prove that in court when the first person sues you. For that, you need real research and medical-grade ingredients.

    People are (naturally) extremely wary of exposing their kids to things. Can you be sure that (say) manuka honey doesn't contain a fungal secretion that causes autism? You won't be able to claim that the product is safe because 'the internet said so, there was an article on a site trying to sell me the thing'. If that was the standard we held ourselves to, ESSO would put a tiger in your tank, we'd have banned the incredibly helpful lifesaving MMR vaccine, and the CIA were behind the WTC attacks.

    Actually, a whole lot more, 'the internet' of the source for so much misrepresentation, misunderstanding, commercial interests, etc., that it's an extremely poor source for research without significant filtering. Within an hour I could set up a chain of websites claiming (ingredient I'm selling) is good for cancer/the skin/heart/weight loss/blah. They would then be backed up by each other, some stock photos of people in lab coats, etc. Maybe a couple of them would look folksy and homespun for different credibility. I could have a full online ad campaign with animated gifts and 'one weird tip' by lunchtime. Seriously, by lunchtime. By this evening I could be shipping out subscriptions for my miracle ingredient. Couple of days time I could get some press ads in place and get a rent-a-face celebrity to do me an endorsement wearing a bikini - so I could then get those pics into the red-tops and crank up the legitimacy... For a completely untested product. Maybe apple seeds, let's say. We assume they're safe, but they contain arsenic traces, eat enough they'll make you ill.

    Not trying to target you personally or your intentions, but show how fat more actual, real, medical research is needed before making claims that a product is harmless especially for babies.
  • "...some stock photos of people in lab coats, etc. ..."

    Holding clipboards of course!
    Who having known the diamond will concern himself with glass?

    Rudyard Kipling


  • paddyrg
    paddyrg Posts: 13,543 Forumite
    "...some stock photos of people in lab coats, etc. ..."

    Holding clipboards of course!

    Trust!

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