Colon Review Board Needs a High Colonic
Consider now the august Colon Review Board, and try not to picture in your mind a bunch of guys in white coats sitting around a conference table under flourescent lights inspecting handfuls of greasy organs and giving some kind of letter grade -- "prime" for "pink," "R" for "rubbery," and so on.
In reality, this is another variation on neutraceuticals network marketing. These guys claim on their site to be "a watch dog group in the health products industry located in New York," though we can find no such colon authority in the state.
You don't even need to be an expert to spot this sham.
Note the logos of famous mainstream media organizations, plastered on the site with the intent to fool you into thinking the Colon Review Board has been featured on Oprah and in the Wall Street Journal, when in reality it means, at best, that Oprah once mentioned colons on her show, or that the WSJ uses a lot of semi-colons (sorry, we couldn't resist).
Site links lead only to other product sites -- no listing of distiguished members of the colon board, or their medical qualifications, or anything else. The Web site cites a study about the products' effectiveness, but gives no details. The home page also dispenses about 1,000 words or so of dubious medical advice, including things we don't really want to think about: "While the cause of colon cancer isn’t known, it isn’t healthy for waste, which is meant to be eliminated from the body, to sit in your colon for weeks."
This site, by the way, is registered via a private proxy service in Canada, which would be unusual behavior for a group of health experts in New York. All the product sites the Colon Review Board links to are anonymously registered as well, in Canada, Arizona and Funchal, Madeira. More on those in a minute.
Comments
Interesting...I live in VT, and when I clicked on the link to see what the "Colon Review Board" had to say, I found that they were "a watch dog group in the health products industry located in Vermont" Also, be aware that if you get suckered into this scam (as I did) it is very difficult to get the $80+ charges to stop.
Posted by: johnna | June 30, 2009 09:12 AM