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Many high ranking Republicans have called Trump a fraud, a fake, a phony, and...
...you've undoubtedly heard about the Trump University scam, but scams abound in Trump's business dealings. Below is just one of Trump's many scams.
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Donald Trump Selling a Naturopathic Product
The company’s flagship product was a customized multi-vitamin called the PrivaTest, which supposedly relied upon a mail-in urine test to create a custom vitamin formula (about $140 for the test; $70 per month for the vitamins; $100 to retest every 6 months). In fact, Dr. Stephen Barrett began warning about Ideal Health’s PrivaTest in 2003. Because Quackwatch maintains the best description and criticism of the PrivaTest, please go there for more information. Bottom line: urine testing for customized vitamins is never a good value.
As early as 2007, Ideal Health employed a naturopath named David Macallan, ND. From Ideal Health’s homepage, one could find “Dr. Mac’s blog” and his descriptions about how Ideal Health’s products worked and the purported scientific evidence. One of his blog entries is titled “Stephen Barrett and Quackwatch – Biased and Unworthy of Credibility,” which I recommend as an entertaining rebuttal to Dr. Barrett by a naturopath with vested financial interest in a pseudoscientific product.
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Ideal Health's PrivaTest
Stephen Barrett, M.D.
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Neithe[r] the test nor the nutrients offer good value. Urine tests do not provide a legitimate basis for recommending that people take dietary supplements. Moreover, even if they could, the nutrients in Ideal Health's so-called customized formulas can be obtained far more inexpensively in retail stores.
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Many high ranking Republicans have called Trump a fraud, a fake, a phony, and...
...you've undoubtedly heard about the Trump University scam, but scams abound in Trump's business dealings. Below is just one of Trump's many scams.
<snip>
Donald Trump Selling a Naturopathic Product
The company’s flagship product was a customized multi-vitamin called the PrivaTest, which supposedly relied upon a mail-in urine test to create a custom vitamin formula (about $140 for the test; $70 per month for the vitamins; $100 to retest every 6 months). In fact, Dr. Stephen Barrett began warning about Ideal Health’s PrivaTest in 2003. Because Quackwatch maintains the best description and criticism of the PrivaTest, please go there for more information. Bottom line: urine testing for customized vitamins is never a good value.
As early as 2007, Ideal Health employed a naturopath named David Macallan, ND. From Ideal Health’s homepage, one could find “Dr. Mac’s blog” and his descriptions about how Ideal Health’s products worked and the purported scientific evidence. One of his blog entries is titled “Stephen Barrett and Quackwatch – Biased and Unworthy of Credibility,” which I recommend as an entertaining rebuttal to Dr. Barrett by a naturopath with vested financial interest in a pseudoscientific product.
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Ideal Health's PrivaTest
Stephen Barrett, M.D.
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Neithe[r] the test nor the nutrients offer good value. Urine tests do not provide a legitimate basis for recommending that people take dietary supplements. Moreover, even if they could, the nutrients in Ideal Health's so-called customized formulas can be obtained far more inexpensively in retail stores.
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