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Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Don't Trust the Attention Deficit Blog

"Jeannine Virtue" is alleged to write the Attention Deficit Disorder Blog at BlogSpot.  It is riddled with misinformation about ADHD and medications.  I wonder how much "Jeannine Virtue" is paid to write the BlogSpot blog.

She may also write as "Jeannine Arthur", on arthritis.

The ADD blog at Blogspot is a shill for a line of supplements called "Attend".  (Attend, Extress, and Memorin).

They claim "Attend comes with extensive research and development and clinical testing to quantify the remarkably high  effectiveness of this product for Attention Deficit Disorder"  but provide no links to research.

This makes the Blogspot a "splog", in my book.

DrumsNWhistles says,

Frankly, creating a blog on Blogspot which gives the impression that it’s giving worthwhile advice about ADHD while really being used to covertly advertise your product by creating bias in your readers is slimy, dishonest, and speaks to the obvious weakness of the product itself. Anyone reading this blog should be aware that it’s just an expanded infomercial for this person to sell their snake oil.

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