September 02, 2008

The Downs side of health info on the Web

Longtime TV celebrity Hugh Downs is apparently promoting cures for just about anything. A website with his name and face on it proclaims "2,618 staggering breakthroughs" from "the greatest medical team ever assembled."

The site offers:

•bypass in a pill
• cure high blood pressure in hours
• Secret Super Vaccines Beat Prostate Cancer...Breast, Lung and Brain Cancer, Too!
• and much more.

The site says, "Hurry! You'll Never See This Offer on TV." Thank God.

Let's hope Downs didn't really lend (or sell) his name to this effort.

Posted by schwitz at September 2, 2008 08:14 AM | TrackBack
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