Donald Trump, bad science, and the vitamin company that went bust

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https://www.statnews.com/2016/03/02/donald-trump-vitamin-company/

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For about two years, a STAT investigation has found, The Trump Network sold customized vitamins and scientific testing kits, claiming they would yield health benefits. But according to many outside experts, the network was selling bad science.

Among other claims, The Trump Network asserted that it could use a urine test to recommend customized nutritional supplements, its signature products. It also offered products that purportedly tested for allergies and bone health. But scientists said such claims were never backed up by modern medicine.

“They make an outrageous statement, which is that this testing and supplement regimen, this process, are a necessity for anyone who wants to stay healthy,” said Dr. Pieter Cohen, a general internist at Cambridge Health Alliance and an expert on dietary supplement safety who reviewed some of The Trump Network’s marketing materials at the request of STAT. “That’s quite (beep).”

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The firm was a network marketing company, or multilevel marketing company, that sold products through a team of marketers who were financially incentivized to make sales and to recruit others into the network.

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There are so many things wrong with this Trump venture that it's hard to know where to start. It certainly had no viable underpinning of any kind. It was unethical to the core, selling worthless products falsely advertised, using multilevel marketing, ...

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