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01-13-2017, 12:00 AM
This startup is taking on fake news in the vitamin and supplement world
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The term "snake oil" — **w a catch-all for any scam good with a flashy sales pitch — originated in the days when con artists would roam from town to town by wagon, shilling useless health elixirs to unwitting marks.
Today, their spiritual successors have a bit more tech**logy at their disposal. They've traded in the slick speeches and stages for blogs and websites, making for an online media universe of holistic cures and herbal remedies that's **toriously rife with sometimes dangerous misinformation.
SEE ALSO: On-demand wellness is basically Seamless for your health (http://mashable.com/2015/05/05/on-demand-health/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
That bad reputation is one of the biggest challenges faced by a new startup called Care/of, which offers personalized vitamin and supplement regimens on a monthly subscription basis.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/12/careof-vitamin-startup-battle-misinformation/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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The term "snake oil" — **w a catch-all for any scam good with a flashy sales pitch — originated in the days when con artists would roam from town to town by wagon, shilling useless health elixirs to unwitting marks.
Today, their spiritual successors have a bit more tech**logy at their disposal. They've traded in the slick speeches and stages for blogs and websites, making for an online media universe of holistic cures and herbal remedies that's **toriously rife with sometimes dangerous misinformation.
SEE ALSO: On-demand wellness is basically Seamless for your health (http://mashable.com/2015/05/05/on-demand-health/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
That bad reputation is one of the biggest challenges faced by a new startup called Care/of, which offers personalized vitamin and supplement regimens on a monthly subscription basis.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/12/careof-vitamin-startup-battle-misinformation/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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