Online Medical Frauds and Fake Cures: What's Going On?
Posted Sep 13 2008 6:53pm
I first began looking into a group Web sites under the umbrella of Flu-Fighter Laboratories when a reader asked me what I thought of the product being sold at migrainecure.com. As I read the site, I found more and more content there that was plagiarized and blatant misrepresentation. The first thing to catch my eye was a photo of a woman holding a bottle of their product with the caption, "Merle Goldstein, MD Chicago, IL." Now, I've met Dr. Merle Diamond, and that photo certainly was not of her. She was also liberally quoted on that page. When I contacted Dr. Diamond, she was shocked and very unhappy. She knew nothing of the site or their product... Soon, I discovered that I wasn't the only person looking into these sites and reporting them to governmental agencies. Now, prosecutors in Florida are going through the courts to try to shut them down, permanently. Feature article.
I first began looking into a group Web sites under the umbrella of Flu-Fighter Laboratories when a reader asked me what I thought of the product being sold at migrainecure.com. As I read the site, I found more and more content there that was plagiarized and blatant misrepresentation. The first thing to catch my eye was a photo of a woman holding a bottle of their product with the caption, "Merle Goldstein, MD Chicago, IL." Now, I've met Dr. Merle Diamond, and that photo certainly was not of her. She was also liberally quoted on that page. When I contacted Dr. Diamond, she was shocked and very unhappy. She knew nothing of the site or their product... Soon, I discovered that I wasn't the only person looking into these sites and reporting them to governmental agencies. Now, prosecutors in Florida are going through the courts to try to shut them down, permanently. Feature article.