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change for your community. Volunteer at I can be a Magistrate.co.uk. Okay. Hello, hi and welcome to another episode of the Emmagun show. I am your host Emmagun Awardner and in this episode my lovely friend, my clever friend Claire Coleman, the investigative journalist, makes a very welcome return to the podcast.

And one of the reasons I ask Claire to come back is because she really is very good at cutting through the BS,

particularly when it comes to the beauty health and wellness industries.

So I would describe her as an investigative journalist because her role in many ways is when a

brand or a business or someone makes a grand claim.

Claire is the person who takes the time to do the research to figure out what's

really behind that claim and whether there's any truth in it.

And she has definitely uncovered and been the person who has found flaws in some of these grand

claims that you and I might see in big marketing

billboards so she really does the work that I guess we all wish that we had time to do.

She I go to her all the time. If I read something and it scares me and I fall

pray to clickbait, I will message her and send her the link to something and

say, Claire, is this a load of nonsense? Or is this actually true?

Because if it is, I need to throw X, Y, or Z away.

And she always comes back to me and says,

ah, this, or there's that report from so and so that back that up.

But then that's been disproven.

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