Comments on: 14-year-old science students discover corporate advert lies!

By: Angel H. Wong

Angel H. Wong — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:56:15 +0000

#14

Sugar is too expensive to waste on kids’ drink, corn syrup is the right one and it also adds a slight acidic tang to the water.

By: Potaua

Potaua — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:07:43 +0000

You’d think a drug company would know how to get some vitamin c into the stuff ~ so then its just purple sugar water, like some sort of liquified jelly that must have been like gold ~ at my school, its what the rick kids drank, which explains their bad teeth and hyper-activity ~ this piss should be pulled, stoopid its not

By: Angel H. Wong

Angel H. Wong — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:37:53 +0000

#10

Naw, I just live in a place where such things do happen.

By: TJGeezer

TJGeezer — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:31:41 +0000

They’ll fire a worker with a year to go until retirement, then announce they found and fired the villain. Wait. That’s how it would happen in the U.S. Don’t know about how the Kiwis handle such things.

Marketing it as a supplement for infants should be a criminal offense. It’s awful no matter how you look at it, but I suppose the corporate types couldn’t resiste stealing vitamins from a baby.

By: edwinrogers

edwinrogers — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:23:11 +0000

In NZ they market it at parents as a suitable replacement for fresh fruit and as a dietary supplement for infants.

By: mark

mark — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:06:47 +0000

7. You really do have a dark side to you. If you can go public big enough, the threat of corporate termination decreases.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:35:29 +0000

Misleading advertising? What is that never heard of anything so low;-)

I would bet if a test was done on to see what % of advertising was misleading or out and out lies, my guess would be around 90%.

Anyone want to take an over under on that.

By: Gary Marks

Gary Marks — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:58:10 +0000

I can’t help but wonder if Glaxo was extracting the vitamin C that should have been a natural part of the Ribena, and selling it as “Naturally-derived Vitamin C” as a separate product.

By: Angel H. Wong

Angel H. Wong — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:16:01 +0000

I bet in retaliation those two girls will end up dead.

By: Mr. Fusion

Mr. Fusion — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:52:26 +0000

#5, No, the government trusted the private company to report accurately and faithfully. I’m sure you remember the old neo-con adage that only private business can do the job correctly.

By: nonStatist

nonStatist — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:18:55 +0000

The government inspected it. So it must be safe!

By: Improbus

Improbus — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:49:44 +0000

If you expect our government to do it’s job in this day and age you are deluded.

By: Mac Guy

Mac Guy — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:41:13 +0000

Of course they knew better. And they figured they wouldn’t get caught.

The odd thing is… Isn’t this supposed to be overseen by the FDA? Oh wait, that’s probably why we haven’t seen the product here. Flat. Out. Lies.

By: Billabong

Billabong — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:14:41 +0000

You didn’t mention in your post that this is Glaxo Smith Kline a major drug co.They knew better.

By: Mac Guy

Mac Guy — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:06:11 +0000

I’m just waiting for the company’s logo to appear with the caption “pwn3d!”