Dear Friend,
As you know, the Center for Science in the Public Interest is responding to COVID-19 in part by turning our attention to those seeking to profit from the pandemic—people like disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker, who was selling a colloidal silver solution as a miracle cure for the coronavirus. Soon after we blew the whistle, the Food and Drug Administration and several state attorneys general put a stop to it.
One profiteer from COVID-19 fearmongering is the online supplement salesman Joseph Mercola.
Mercola brazenly has claimed that many of his products are coronavirus treatments or cures, including vitamin C, vitamin D, zinc, selenium, “molecular hydrogen,” licorice, and other substances. Besides profiting from the pandemic, Mercola has seemingly advised people to contract COVID-19 after taking supposedly “immunity boosting” supplements (which of course he sells).
Making matters worse, Mercola is a leading proponent of anti-vaccine conspiracy theories—and has been fearmongering against prospective COVID-19 vaccines even before such vaccines are available!
A few weeks ago, CSPI urged the FDA and the Federal Trade Commission to bring enforcement proceedings against Mercola and his companies for their unlawful disease claims that falsely and misleadingly claim to treat, cure or prevent COVID-19 infections.
This is where I need to ask for your help. Will you please Tweet at the FDA and the FTC and urge them to bring an enforcement action against Mercola?
Click here to post the following Tweet:
It’s time to stop supplement salesmen from profiting from the COVID-19 pandemic and from fearmongering against vaccines. Please @US_FDA and @FTC—it’s time to bring enforcement proceedings against Joseph @Mercola.
If you like, feel free to add your state’s Attorney General to the Tweet. They, too, have resources at their disposal to bring supplement sellers into compliance with state law.
Thank you for reading—and thank you for your help.
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