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Re:Lumosity fined $2M for deceptive ads of “Brain Training” app by arbitrage on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @04:08PM (#10846064)
The FTC is doing it's job. You can' make arbitrary medical claims, and not expect to have to prove them.

This is the same sort of thing that a lot of people criticized the FDA over for going after Cheerios for making claims about being healthy for your heart.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124216077825612187

It's a good thing that there are parts of the government out there making sure you can't just make up whatever you want to sell a product.

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Re:Lumosity fined $2M for deceptive ads of “Brain Training” app by thaumasiotes on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @07:27PM (#10847328)
> You can' make arbitrary medical claims, and not expect to have to prove them.

Sure you can. You just have to be selling drugs, rather than video games.

I don't quite follow the logic.

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Re:Lumosity fined $2M for deceptive ads of “Brain Training” app by bsder on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @02:02AM (#10849069)
Herbalife would beg to differ with your claims.
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