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Spot the Pseudoscience

A confident nutrition claim isn't the same as a true one. Learn the recurring persuasion tactics that mark a claim as unreliable — then examine each statement and tap every red flag you can find. One of them plays fair; see if you can tell.

The claim under examination

well-supported many red flags
Pick a claim to examine
Choose one of the claims to the right, then hunt for the red flags.
The evidence detectiveselect a claim, then tap the tactics you spot
Claims to examine
Tap every red flag you can spot
Red flags found: — / —
How to read a claimScience-flavored wording is easy to fake. The tell isn't a single scary word — it's the pattern of tactics. Tap a claim above to begin, then tap the tactics you notice. Tapping a tactic that isn't present costs nothing; you'll just learn what it looks like.