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You know what else gets rid of fleas? All of those products you can get from the vet and pet stores. You know? The ones that have been scientifically proven to safely get rid of and prevent fleas. Why would you do this to your own cat?
B…but if tiktok says something is true then it must be scientifically proven, right? No one would lie on the internet, right?
When you don't define scientifically proven then yes it is.
"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.