Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/07/15/cbd-for-immune-support-protec.html
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OK, this is too far. Usually Boingboing peddles harmless lifestyle stuff, even when it comes to CBD. But this is basically saying (or narrowly avoiding saying, for legal reasons) that this stuff protects you from Covid 19. It might be legal but it’s not what I expect from this place.
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Long Live The Placebo Effect
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Coming soon to the BB store:
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Totally irresponsible snake-oil woo; NOT OK, BoingBoing.
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What the fuck next BoingBoing? Crystal therapy? I can’t believe that your major contributors here actually are OK with having their names put beside this bullshit. You are this close to losing a decade+ long reader.
edit Just emailed C Doctorow about this issue. Other people want to contact the other contributors and ask then if they want to be associated with this pseudo-science?
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Good Grief, BoingBoing WTF?
The evidence for CBD being safe and effective for any condition is scant, at best.
Just because a product is poorly regulated doesn’t mean your store has to be.
-S
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Uhm, you do know Cory left, right? Probably precisely because of stuff like this
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Yeah. He replied telling me he had left. Guess I know why. Guess I’m out too.
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As a longtime fan I’d just like to say
Please, stop it.
You want to advertise CBD products to keep the lights on, go right ahead. You want to insinuate that the product you are promoting is a way to protect vulnerable people during a global pandemic then you’ve just lost your moral standing over the charlatans you rightly decry on this site.
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Quackery is not a victimless crime.
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Especially when it preys on most vulnerable groups during the pandemic.
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@beschizza @pesco @jlw @frauenfelder @xeni
Is this really acceptable to have on your site?
I’d say I’m disappointed, but unironically? It’d be more accurate for me to say, I’m disgusted.
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I find this advertisement really slimy and the kind of bullshit weasel wording that the supplement industry likes to use, so I let Real Tested CBD know this and because of it don’t trust anything from them. You can do this also https://realtestedcbd.com/contact-us/
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this is the kind of thing that loses long-time readers like me… and deserves a full-throated apology from boingboing.
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