{"id":1830,"date":"2008-03-05T11:40:12","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T19:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/airborne-homeopathic-remedy-made-by-a-teacher-so-it-has-to-be-good-or-not\/"},"modified":"2008-03-06T16:36:01","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T00:36:01","slug":"airborne-homeopathic-remedy-made-by-a-teacher-so-it-has-to-be-good-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/airborne-homeopathic-remedy-made-by-a-teacher-so-it-has-to-be-good-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Airborne Homeopathic Remedy: Made by a Teacher so it HAS to be Good&#8230; or not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This could have been done better. I mean, the placebo effect DOES work. Trouble is&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/ColdFlu\/story?id=4380374&amp;page=1\">via ABCNews<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/aireborne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/aireborne.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"aireborne.jpg\" class=\"imageframe\" align=\"right\" height=\"163\" width=\"178\" \/><\/a> the investigation revealed that Airborne&#8217;s clinical trial was conducted by just two people in the absence of a clinic or scientists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airbornehealthsettlement.com\/\">settling a lawsuit<\/a> for $23 million. Monies to be distributed for those <strike>stupid enough to<\/strike> that believe this is a preventative and cure for colds.<\/p>\n<p>Now the following took 3 seconds of investigative reporting. Look at the image I snapped of their website today. It says &#8220;The famous original formula &#8211; created by a school teacher &#8211; contains 17 herbs and nutrients&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ingredients list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>8 &#8220;herbal extract proprietary blend&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>2 &#8220;amino acids&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>8 &#8220;other ingredients&#8221; are sorbital, citric acid, sodium bicarbonate, orange flavor, mineral oil, acesulfame potasium, sucralose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If I&#8217;ve got my math right, only one of those &#8220;other ingredients&#8221; isn&#8217;t a &#8220;nutrient&#8221;. Do you think it&#8217;s the mineral oil or the orange flavor? Yeah, right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This could have been done better. I mean, the placebo effect DOES work. Trouble is&#8230; (via ABCNews) &#8230; the investigation revealed that Airborne&#8217;s clinical trial was conducted by just two people in the absence of a clinic or scientists. They are settling a lawsuit for $23 million. Monies to be distributed for those stupid enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}