Will Falconer, DVM Moderator
So, Karen, you don't believe clinical experience, then (or your FB folks don't, you don't really say what your thoughts are)? I'd suggest that these same doubters look for the research on every drug they either take or give to their animals. And not look at face value at the research done by those who sell the products, but put it to a scientist whose work is to critically evaluate research.
You (or they, again, not sure who's talking here) will find very, very few hold up to the standards of good research.
It's the same lame argument that it's been "proven" that vaccines don't cause autism. By "research" that's never compared vaccinated to unvaccinated populations. But, by all means, tell the thousands of moms who had normal, bright, engaged youngsters who lost their normal lives to this disease after being vaccinated that they have no research to "prove" it.
If decades of use in hundreds of patients with scads of negative HW test reports year over year isn't good enough, this approach isn't for you. Or your FB buddies. Stick to the monthly pesticides. But again, show me the research that shows they are safe and efficacious, and that's been verified by a real statistician as valid.
Facebook is a vast wasteland of opinions and emotions and just because something's in print doesn't make it valid.