To: Bill Wexler who wrote (2312 ) 7/18/1999 3:21:00 AM From: out_of_the_loop Read Replies (1) | Respond to
You confuse the word "endorsement", as used in my sentence to mean "acceptance through publishing in a respected medical journal", with paid advertisements. I think what I meant was pretty clear because I asked you specifically if you would continue to label Zicam a "fraud" even if the NEJM published the study about it - and you stated you would still consider it a fraud. Your statement about the FDA is not meaningful because, as stated several times here, the FDA made up the requirements that govern such labelling. Therefore, once again, "safe" is not a question here. I already explained that the absorption was minimal and less than the RDA if the whole bottle was taken and that the effectiveness was because the viruses attack at the level of the nasal epithelium via the ICAM. How the viruses attack is proven scientific fact.
