User:Osisbe/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Detoxification (alternative medicine)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it relates to my research project on detoxes.

Evaluate the article
Almost everything in the article seems quite relevant. One minor tweak would maybe be the removal of the last sentence of the "Background" section, because the note about the environmentalism movement doesn't seem as relevant to the rest of the article. One thing missing from the article is a more comprehensive summary of the detox industry. A lot of the criticism in the article seems to be that businesses make money by selling detox products, so it would be interesting for there to be a section of the article devoted to explaining this industry that makes money off of pseudo-scientific claims. The article is not neutral, because it exclusively cites scientific articles that find that detox diets cause dangerous health consequences and/or don't work. However, there is some research such as this one that finds that some kinds of detox diets can have some limited health benefits (increased diversity of gut microbiome).