Skepticism

NZ Advertising Standards Authority Privacy Policy

Submitted by Unifex on

The ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) is the place to go when you see advertising that is problematic, scientifically or factually incorrect.  Their Privacy Policy makes it clear that you are required to provide your name, address, e-mail and phone number.  This contact information will be passed to the Advertiser.

It's not a "Swiss Report"

Submitted by Unifex on

The Letter to the Editor from Felix Gurtner[1] that challenges the nature and representation of the "Swiss Report" was commonly linked to via the PDF on the Swiss Medical Weekly site. This PDF has been removed and is now returning a 404.

I've located the actual Letter to the Editor on the Swiss Medical Weekly website though. If you reference this often you'll want to update your bookmarks to this;

https://smw.ch/en/article/doi/smw.2012.13723/