The New York attorney general has ordered GNC, Target, Walgreens and Walmart to clean house. He says they're selling fraudulently labeled, bullshit "herbal supplements" that've got to go, pronto, and he also wants to know exactly how they're verifying the products they carry.
After Your Baby Can Read was shut down earlier this summer, it seemed like things had hit rock-bottom for the dubious infant literacy program. That, however, was before the Federal Trade Commission filed false advertising charges against the marketers of Your Baby Can Read, and the company's empire of reading DVDs…
Your Baby Can Read, the program that promised to teach infants to read using flashcards and DVDs, has gone out of business. It's the latest development in a tumultuous couple of years.
A Florida company has created a brand of gum they say helps boost male libido. But before you reach for the magnums, Sexlets "don't claim to cure anything" and are available for the low, low price of $11.97. [UPI]
A retailer in China is selling the saliva of "pretty 18-year-old girls" as a health serum for $3. The website advertises that the spit was collected from the teens while they were sleeping. Verdict: Gross and creepy. [Sun]
