Accused by feds, sun bed-selling doctor Jospeh Mercola settles for up to $5.3 million

[muriel_volestrangler]

For decades, doctors have warned consumers that indoor tanning is a skin cancer risk to be avoided.

But if that was a message sun-starved Chicagoans didn't want to hear, Dr. Joseph Mercola had a tanning bed to sell them.

And he had a sales pitch to sweeten the deal. He claimed the tanning beds that he sold for between $1,200 and $4,000 from his Hoffman Estates based-business not only didn't cause cancer, but also actively reduced the chances of getting it.

There was only one problem with Mercola's spiel, according to a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit: It was nonsense.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-sunbed-doc-settles-0415-biz-20160414-story.html

Please, any time anyone is tempted to quote anything from Mercola again, remember: he is a quack who told lies and put people at risk of cancer purely for profit.

[thereismore]

1. Yep. Mercola is a hack. Just like Oz. nt

[hlthe2b]

2. Does Ariana Huff still worship every quackish opinion he serves up?

I have started avoiding HUFFPO for this and many other reasons....

[SCantiGOP]

3. Agree

Huffington used to be decent; I avoid it now.

[drm604]

4. Sadly, I see people linking to his website a lot.

They'll just say that this is persecution by big pharma.