THE LYING PHARMACIST

The most obscenely deceptive fraud on television is for a useless placebo called Prevagen. Sadly a lot of gullible viewers buy it every month for more than $35.00 for 30 worthless capsules. Why? Because the maker's very expensive ad campaign has lots of well-paid professionals lying about its effectiveness, claiming they were impressed by its unimpressive research, and suggesting that their memories have been reignited by this jellyfish-based capsules of no more value than a Tic-Tac. Now the perpetrator of this successful fraud  has found the ultimate con man: an actual pharmacist who swears that Prevagen is effective despite all the facts that prove it's a scam. Being a Prevagen user is like buying 30 jelly beans every month for more than $1 a bean

How is it legal? Common sense tells you theres no drug in existence that can make your brain healthier, if there were, it would be a remarkable scientific breakthrough. The drug company who invented it would charge insurance companies thousands of dollars per pill. It would not be sold over the counter for $39.99 at CVS. There would be massive shortages of it because everyone in the country would be prescribed it. People make fun of the fact that Geritol in the 1950s would advertise about improving “tired blood”…how is this not the same thing?

Evidence that it works

Evidence that Prevagen works

But, according to the FTC and the New York attorney general, the trial involved 218 subjects taking either 10 milligrams of Prevagen or a placebo and “failed to show a statistically significant improvement in the treatment group over the placebo group on any of the nine computerized cognitive tasks.”Sep 11, 2021