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“There’s no special reason they should be allowed to bypass the standard clinical trial system just because there’s a peptide fad driven by wellness influencers and telehealth firms.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

America's basketball fad had been swiftly deconstructed, repurposed.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

“If raw milk was a fad or a lie, then why would people repeatedly buy raw milk and then tell the world how they love it,” he said.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

I am disheartened by the merely contemporary and hence indifferent to every fad.

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026

Robbie had put down his trowel and stood to roll a cigarette, a hangover from his Communist Party time—another abandoned fad, along with his ambitions in anthropology, and the planned hike from Calais to Istanbul.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Instead, long stretches of the book read like disparate essays on donnish life, fads and internecine disagreements, strung together in a sequence that never coheres.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

We have the opposite problem — mountains of rigorous scientific evidence, drowned out by noisy advice, marketing, and fads.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 21, 2026

Scientists and scholars are susceptible to career incentives, moral fads, groupthink and fear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

Some also say Americans — as in the case of previous health fads — run the risk of overdoing it.

From MarketWatch ● May 10, 2026

But such fads can persist in isolated societies.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond