Doh! http://consumerist.com/363144/claim-benefits-in-airborne-class-action-lawsuit
"The Airborne dietary supplement, which claims to help ward off the cold and flu, has reached a tentative settlement in a class action lawsuit that the company misrepresented its product. You can file online or by mail here <http://www.airbornehealthsettlement.com/submitClaim.aspx>. Boxes of Airborne used to cite a study by "GNG Pharmaceutical Services Inc" that said it tested 120 people and 47% showed little or no cold flu symptoms, versus 23% of a placebo. However, an ABC news investigation <http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Health/story?id=1664514&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312> revealed that GNG was a two-man operation started up just to make the Airborne study, and had no clinic, scientists or doctors. Following the negative publicity, Knight-McDowell Labs removed references to the GNG study from its packages. Maybe people just weren't reading the box carefully and failed to apply directly to the forehead <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is3icfcbmbs>." -Cameron Cameron Childress wrote: > Anyone else out there use Airborne (airbornehealth.com) when they are > feeling a little under the weather? I was very skeptical of it's > effectiveness at boosting your immune system, but so far my result shave > been quite good. > > Usually when the seasons/temps change alot (like it has been) I start > feeling a cold coming on and within one night's sleep I wake up with a > full blown cold that kills me for about 2 weeks. This time I started > taking Airborne once I got that icky "I'm about to get sick with a cold" > feeling and for days it appears to have held back the full blown cold to > just a mildly sore throat. > > I'm not ready to declare it a miracle yet, but I *always* get colds in > the spring/fall and so far it's looking like this is working so far. > > Anyone else use this stuff? Did you grow a third eye for using it too much? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:255427 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
