Yeah, I take the assertions of "strong" vs. "promising" vs. "conflicting" with a hefty dose of skepticism. My criteria for such determinations are probably more stringent than most peoples', mostly because this topic is a sore spot for me and quite frankly it makes me cranky.
For example, if you click on the cranberries bubble, it takes you to a JAMA-published study that has some fairly hard data. BUT I would put that at "conflicting" rather than "promising" because IMO there's more data showing there ISN'T efficacy there, but like I said, different criteria.
And the echinacea link? No longer functional, so I can't even see for myself whether or not I agree with the assertion that it's conflicting vs. conclusively nonsense, as you said. And many of the other links are behind paywalls.
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The Beauty of Data Visualization.
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echinacea's efficacy isn't conflicting, it's absolutely conclusively nonsense.
Cranberries for UTI? Wrong.
A blogger from ScienceBasedmedicine has another take on the whole thing.
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For example, if you click on the cranberries bubble, it takes you to a JAMA-published study that has some fairly hard data. BUT I would put that at "conflicting" rather than "promising" because IMO there's more data showing there ISN'T efficacy there, but like I said, different criteria.
And the echinacea link? No longer functional, so I can't even see for myself whether or not I agree with the assertion that it's conflicting vs. conclusively nonsense, as you said. And many of the other links are behind paywalls.
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