Why is it that these people just love to throw in the old line " . . . but the truth may be a little more complicated"?
No shit! And exactly what does that sentence even mean? What is defined as "a little"? Does it mean incomprehensibly, head-scratchingly more complicated, or just mildly, obfuscatingly complicated?
As in, "50 billion bacteria were used in the experiment." Well, the truth may be a little more complicated—actually, the number was 44,976,096,987 bacteria! That is a LOT more complicated!
As in, "You can read this article all you want, but you're actually not smart enough to understand it even if we explain it to you nicely."
" . . . researchers from the University of Copenhagen performed a systematic review of seven clinical trials." Please note that the researchers themselves didn't actually do any clinical trials, they merely analyzed actual clinical trials done by real scientists and then passed judgment on the results.
This is like saying "The Mafia in America is actually primarily the fictive construct of Hollywood scriptwriters" based on having reviewed Goodfellas, The Godfather trilogy, The Sopranos and Van Damme Meets Don Vito Corleone II.
As in "Over the course several weeks," where apparently the writers of this article have decided the word "of" is optional.
As in “While there is some evidence from previous reviews that probiotic interventions may benefit those with disease-associated imbalances of the gut microbiota, there is little evidence of an effect in healthy individuals,” said senior author Oluf Pedersen. “To explore the potential of probiotics to contribute to disease prevention in healthy people there is a major need for much larger, carefully designed and carefully conducted clinical trials.”
Yup. So we're all going to sit around for a decade or two while you run your clinical trials, and possibly at the end of them conclude "Hey, I guess those probiotics people were right all along! Our bad."
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