[extropy-chat] Professor Being Sued Over Anti-Aging Comments

[giorgio gaviraghi]

the people claiming ineffective wonder drugs are our
worst enemies since they affect our credibility.
They must be exposed and persecuted.
--- BillK <pharos at gmail.com> ha scritto: 

> On 6/20/05, Olga Bourlin wrote:
> >     
> > However, it seems more and more scientific
> medicine is going to bed with
> > "alternative medicine" these days.  And money
> seems to be at the root of
> > this phenomenon.  So, where do we begin? 
> >   
> 
> See:
> <http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2005/06/greatamerican.htm>
> 
> For Release: June 9, 2005 CORRECTED
> 
> FTC Targets Bogus Anti-Aging Claims for Pills and
> Sprays Promising
> Human Growth Hormone Benefits
> 
> Settlement Provides Up To $20 Million In Consumer
> Redress
> 
> Two Florida businesses have agreed to a federal
> court order requiring
> them to pay up to $20 million in consumer redress –
> the largest
> monetary judgment ever obtained in an FTC health
> fraud case – to
> settle charges that they deceptively claimed that
> their pills and
> sprays would increase consumers' human growth
> hormone (HGH) levels and
> provide anti-aging benefits, including weight loss
> and increased
> cognitive function. In addition, the Commission has
> issued warning
> letters to more than 90 Internet marketers making
> similar claims.
> 
> "Early explorers searched without success for a
> fountain of youth, and
> modern marketers promise that it can be found in
> pills and sprays,"
> said Lydia Parnes, Director of the FTC's Bureau of
> Consumer
> Protection. "Those promises are illusory.
> Unfortunately, no pill or
> spray can turn back the hands of time."
> 
> The complaint alleges that ads for the dietary
> supplements Ultimate
> HGH and Super HGH Booster and the sublingual sprays
> Master HGH and
> Super HGH promise that these products will
> significantly increase
> growth hormone levels; provide the benefits
> purportedly shown in
> various studies involving prescription-only HGH
> injections; and
> provide physical benefits including reduced fat,
> cholesterol, and
> blood pressure, increased muscle mass, and improved
> cognitive, immune,
> and sexual function.
> According to the FTC, these claims are false or
> unsubstantiated.
> 
> BillK
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