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Oddly shaped $40 pillow has shoppers saying neck pain gone

Shoppers quoted by the New York Post say the budget pillow ended their neck pain; the evidence so far is reviews, not trials.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLighter fare after that. A forty-dollar pillow with an odd shape has shoppers telling the New York Post that their neck pain has actually disappeared.

  2. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe claim is that a piece of shaped foam ends neck pain.

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe evidence is shopper reviews, which are testimony, not a clinical trial, and I have heard weaker testimony convict people.

  4. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWhat shape are we talking about?

  5. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorOddly shaped, is the reporting. I've been in rooms with less detail and more guards.

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo a stranger says the pain disappeared, and that anecdote is supposedly the pillow's entire case.

  7. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorWhich is why I rate this claim, not the sleepers, at Mildly Bonkers. Plausible, cheap, and unproven.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMildly Bonkers. I'm ordering two, and one is for the chair I've been slumped in since nineteen ninety-eight.

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