Comments on: Airborne settles false advertising suit for $23M. So who got duped?

By: Thomas Bowcut

Thomas Bowcut — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:15:01 +0000

My wife will be thrilled to find out this news! She has been telling me the same thing for sometime, all the while I have my parents ship it to me from the States anytime I get low on supplies.

By: Jeff aka The dude at the office Trent was talking about

Jeff aka The dude at the office Trent was talking about — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:06:25 +0000

Nooooo! It can’t be true! I was one of the suckers that was duped by the fizzy farce.

My prediction: Airborne moves company headquarters to Draper and becomes an MLM. Then it fits right in with all of the other miracle cures that are bogus. ;)

By: David

David — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:10:50 +0000

I haven’t had a full blown cold in years. I thank my daily regimen of an adult multi-vitamin (generic from Target!) and glass of orange juice. When I start to feel a cold coming on, though, I would take Airborne. I swore up and down by this stuff. Our grocery store even carries a generic version of it.

Regardless of what it is, it worked for me.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:07:02 +0000

Never tried it, but I did recently read about a study that showed the placebo effect was still in place even when the participants knew it was a placebo … My take, the product’s not going anywhere AND people will still swear by it. I prefer the ol’ gargle with salt water personally.

By: Russell Page

Russell Page — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:30:46 +0000

That crap gave me hives like no other, and it tastes horrible.

By: Trent

Trent — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:45:27 +0000

Funny thing, the people at the office were talking about this like a month ago. I had never heard of it, but pulled up the ingredients when we were talking. I then just said, “all this is, is a fizzy vitamin c drink”. There was literally nothing else in there of any importance. I guess that was about right.