Ben Carson’s Troubling Connection to Company That Promoted Quack AIDS, Cancer Cures
I do not see this clown running. His finances would suffer too much.
Ben Carsons Troubling Connection to Company That Promoted Quack AIDS, Cancer Cures
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/396193/ben-carsons-troubling-connection-jim-geraghty
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January 12, 2015 9:21 AM
Ben Carsons Troubling Connection
For ten years, he interacted with a medical-supplement maker accused of false advertising.
By Jim Geraghty
In March of last year, Dr. Ben Carson, the conservative star considered a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate, appeared in a video for Mannatech, Inc., a Texas-based medical supplement maker. Smiling into the camera, he extolled the benefits of the companys glyconutrient products:
The wonderful thing about a company like Mannatech is that they recognize that when God made us, He gave us the right fuel. And that fuel was the right kind of healthy food. You know we live in a society that is very sophisticated, and sometimes were not able to achieve the original diet. And we have to alter our diet to fit our lifestyle. Many of the natural things are not included in our diet. Basically what the company is doing is trying to find a way to restore natural diet as a medicine or as a mechanism for maintaining health.
Carsons interactions with Mannatech, a nutritional-supplement company based in suburban Dallas, date back to 2004, when he was a speaker at the companys annual conferences, MannaFest and MannaQuest. He also spoke at Mannatech conferences in 2011 and 2013, and spoke about glyconutrients in a PBS special as recently as last year.
Mannatech has a long, checkered past, stretching back to its founding more than a decade before Carson began touting the companys supplements. It was started by businessman Samuel L. Caster in late 1993, mere months, the Wall Street Journal later noted, before Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, which greatly loosened restrictions on how supplement makers could market their products. Within a few years of its inception, the company was marketing a wide variety of glyconutrient products using many of the same tactics previously described in lawsuits against Eagle Shield, Casters first company..........