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Article  Why is that hideous Prevagen commercial allowed on TV?

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C C Offline
https://www.acsh.org/news/2023/03/09/why...d-tv-16927

INTRO: If you think that Prevagen is gonna help your memory, forget it. The stuff is useless. But that doesn't stop sleazy Quincy Bioscience from incessantly advertising it, often between other disgusting ads for legitimate prescription drugs. If you're thinking about incinerating 75 bucks for a bottle of this junk, don't.

I'm not a big fan of TV ads for drugs. They are cloying and sickening, and that's even before you're bombarded by the cyclone of side effects at the end. But at least these drugs are FDA-approved, so they have some benefits. (I take one of them and what it does for me is nothing short of a miracle.)

Another kind of miracle is Prevagen. Because, contrary to what Quincy Bioscience, its maker claims, you'd need a miracle for it to actually help your memory, regardless of whether you remembered to take it or not. And the active ingredient comes from jellyfish. It's not like jellyfish are known as intellectual powerhouses, right? After all, how often do you see this?

No, it doesn't work. Let's ask Dr. Joe!

ACSH friend Dr. Joe Schwarcz is the director of McGill University's Office for Science and Society ("Separating Sense From Nonsense") a prestigious academic department with the same mission as ACSH – to educate the public about good science and debunk bad science. I don't want to go into why Prevagen cannot possibly work; Joe explains this thoroughly in a 2019 article... (MORE - missing details)
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Magical Realist Offline
The ads are as slick and well-produced as normal pharmaceutical ads. Normal everyday people touting the amazing results of taking the pill. Yes.. and it comes from jellyfish, like everyone knows that makes it effective somehow. Thankyou to all who expose supplements like this as outright fraud. I'm sure Neuriva falls into the same category. Shame on you Mayam Bialik..
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Yazata Offline
I was going to buy some of... whatever it was... but I forgot...

I don't have a whole lot of confidence in Prevagen (yes, I've seen the ads and they did interest me) but I've never tried it.

That being said, I don't really have any more confidence in the grandly self-titled "American Council on Science and Health", which appears to be some kind of activist organzation of self-proclaimed "debunkers". (I hate people like that.)

So perhaps I'm more inclined to buy a bottle of Prevagen just as a fuck-you to ACSH's telling me not to. I'd prefer to judge for myself if Prevagen has any noticeable benefit for me. (Would likely just be a placebo effect if it did.)

Except there's no way I'd spend $75 on it. Give me a bottle and I'll try it.
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Syne Offline
Price may be correlated to placebo efficacy. I mean, you really have to believe in it to pay that much.
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