{"id":6617,"date":"2008-03-07T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/airbone-settles-lawsuit.html"},"modified":"2008-03-07T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T15:58:00","slug":"airbone-settles-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/science\/airbone-settles-lawsuit.html","title":{"rendered":"Airbone Settles Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must say that as an Airborne user, I really feel the product has helped me get better and avoid and\/or shorten the duration of colds. Others disagree and have sued Airborne and the class-action lawsuit just settled for $23.3 million..<\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt from a CNN <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/03\/04\/news\/companies\/airborne_settlement\/index.htm?section=money_latest\">article <\/a>on the lawsuit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&quot;There&#8217;s no credible evidence that what&#8217;s in Airborne can prevent colds or  protect you from a germy environment,&quot; said CSPI Senior nutritionist David  Schardt. &quot;Airborne is basically on overpriced, run-of-the-mill vitamin pill  that&#8217;s been cleverly, but deceptively, marketed.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>According to the company&#8217;s Web site, Airborne was created by second-grade  teacher, Victoria Knight-McDowell, who &quot;studied the benefits herbal therapies  used in Eastern Medicine.&quot; The site says Airborne &quot;boosts the immune system with  seven herbal extracts and a proprietary blend of vitamins, electrolytes, amino  acids and antioxidants.&quot;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nI feel bad for <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/personal\/airborne.html\">suggesting <\/a>this supplement in a past entry but I still feel this product works for me and yes, I know it is overpriced vitamins but I also think my car is overpriced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must say that as an Airborne user, I really feel the product has helped me get better and avoid and\/or shorten the duration of colds. Others disagree and have sued Airborne and the class-action lawsuit just settled for $23.3 million.. Here is an excerpt from a CNN article on the lawsuit: &quot;There&#8217;s no credible<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,116],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}