{"id":2681,"date":"2007-01-15T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2007-01-15T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T23:30:00","slug":"airborne-bollocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2007\/01\/15\/19\/30\/airborne-bollocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Airborne Bollocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?articleID=9389C0F4-E7F2-99DF-3BE657CAD1649375\">Most drugs are developed by Big Pharma&#8211;Brobdingnagian corporations with vast teams of scientists who have, to date, failed to cure the common cold. Airborne&#8217;s creator is &#8220;Knight-McDowell Labs&#8221;&#8211;Victoria Knight-McDowell is a schoolteacher and her husband, Rider McDowell, is a scriptwriter &#8230; As for real scientific evidence on Airborne, the Web page used to provide a link to &#8220;clinical results&#8221; (no longer there) &#8230; the company CEO, Elise Donahue, told ABC News: &#8220;We found that it confused consumers. Consumers are really not scientifically minded enough to be able to understand a clinical study.&#8221; ABC News looked into the clinical trial and discovered that it was conducted by GNG Pharmaceutical Services, &#8220;a two-man operation started up just to do the Airborne study. There was no clinic, no scientists and no doctors. The man who ran things said he had lots of clinical trial experience. He added that he had a degree from Indiana University, but the school says he never graduated.&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whohastimeforthis.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/created-by-school-teacher.html\">Original Airborne-Is-Shite Article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most drugs are developed by Big Pharma&#8211;Brobdingnagian corporations with vast teams of scientists who have, to date, failed to cure the common cold. Airborne&#8217;s creator is &#8220;Knight-McDowell Labs&#8221;&#8211;Victoria Knight-McDowell is a schoolteacher and her&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}