Gaspasi Nutrition Viridex XT (*study)
by Anthony Roberts
Apr 7, 2011
Gaspari Nutrition continues to lead the way in sports nutrition by funding clinical studies on their products???unfortunately, this last effort wasn???t their best. In reality, to my mind, this study is one of the worst I???ve ever seen, and makes Viridex XTTM look completely uncredible. They hired a doctor who got his PhD from one of the worst ranked universities in the country (not surprising, since they are a correspondence college), and who has been criticized in the past by the New England Journal of Medicine, as well as The NY Times, for manipulating data to make it appear that his client???s products were actually more safe and effective than they really were.
Furthermore, the lead doctor on the paper has quite a reputation for producing studies that prove the efficacy of his client???s products, while independent research typically proves the opposite. Given the fact that Gaspari Nutrition knows this researcher quite well, and knows his reputation, it???s very telling that they used him for their latest study. His reputation alone ought to have scared off any company interested in an unbiased study. Are there other, HUGE, problems with their data on this product (especially compared with their ad-copy)? Sure. But to my mind, I barely need to read this study past the first researcher to know something???s up.
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by Anthony Roberts
Apr 7, 2011
Gaspari Nutrition continues to lead the way in sports nutrition by funding clinical studies on their products???unfortunately, this last effort wasn???t their best. In reality, to my mind, this study is one of the worst I???ve ever seen, and makes Viridex XTTM look completely uncredible. They hired a doctor who got his PhD from one of the worst ranked universities in the country (not surprising, since they are a correspondence college), and who has been criticized in the past by the New England Journal of Medicine, as well as The NY Times, for manipulating data to make it appear that his client???s products were actually more safe and effective than they really were.
Furthermore, the lead doctor on the paper has quite a reputation for producing studies that prove the efficacy of his client???s products, while independent research typically proves the opposite. Given the fact that Gaspari Nutrition knows this researcher quite well, and knows his reputation, it???s very telling that they used him for their latest study. His reputation alone ought to have scared off any company interested in an unbiased study. Are there other, HUGE, problems with their data on this product (especially compared with their ad-copy)? Sure. But to my mind, I barely need to read this study past the first researcher to know something???s up.
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