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Science Fair Project Exposes GlaxoSmithKline Lies

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the fact-checking-advertisements dept.

shadowspar writes "Despite claims made by GlaxoSmithKline that their Ribena soft drinks are high in Vitamin C, two New Zealand high school students found in their science fair research project that at least some formulations of the drink contained no detectable levels of the vitamin. As a result, GSK has been fined over $200,000 by the NZ Commerce Commission and ordered to run newspaper ads admitting that some of their drinks contain no Vitamin C."

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  1. Old news by basic0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Slashdot. News for Nerds (two weeks after AP runs it and it appears on Yahoo's front page). Stuff that mattered."

  2. Re:A dangerous game by simulacrum25 · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those who read the article,

    The students *didn't* take their findings to the press. They turned their findings into the Commerce Commission who launched an investigation.