Posting medical advice and advertisements in the health forum.

[laconicsax]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=222x106772
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=222x106747
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=222x106806
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=222x106809

These four threads, all started this week by the same DUer contain explicit medical advice in the form of 'do this and take these supplements for the condition described above' followed by a list of the supplements sold by the company running the website.

I have alerted multiple times on these, yet they remain active and I'd like to know why. They seem to be a blatant violation of the "no medical advice" and a borderline violation of the rule against for-profit advertising.

[Skinner]

1. The no medical advice rule is intended to deal with a specific situation:

If a DU member is experiencing a particular medical problem (say, chest pain) we do not want them to substitute advice from DUers instead of advice from a doctor.

We usually permit people to just share general information about treatments.

[laconicsax]

2. Even when these "treatments" contain the disclaimer:

"These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease."

It isn't an alternative treatment, it's an advertisement for products. The poster in question recently began posting the "printer-friendly" versions of these ads to hide the links to purchase unregulated products.