to think MN should not be promoting discredited "intelligence pills"

[60andsomething]

Why is MN promoting advertising from sellers of omega-3 pills on a thread/advert titled something about how to support children in exams?

Omega-3 may be good for your heart, but does nothing for your ability to pass exams. Yet here it is being listed as things good parents should be providing for stressed teens.

This claim about omega-3 improving academic outcomes has now been so thoroughly discredited that is is used as a long standing classic "bad science" case study - although it is outdated even in that, as we have so many more recent examples.

Please don't take revenue from these charlatans, MN

Where is it being advertised? I haven’t seen it.

Can you share the link.

Just because something is advertisied does not make it true, people these days could really do with using their brains more

Here is the link, but I please beg anyone reading it, not to get taken in by the hype. It is offering hope to anxious parents, and emotional blackmail to spend the money or you have not done everything you can for your children. It is NOT TRUE

https://www.mumsnet.com/articles/support-children-through-exams

Fuck that's awful.

You can complain to the ASA

www.asa.org.uk/make-a-complaint.html

Hi OP. To attract MNHQ’s attention you probably need to report your opening post and ask for a response, or ask them to move it to ‘Site Stuff’ which gets monitored (from experience).

Hi there @60andsomething. Thanks for your feedback on this page. We're going to be reviewing this internally and will let you know when there's any update.

Hi again @60andsomething . We've made some amends to this page now and thought you might like to see. https://www.mumsnet.com/articles/support-children-through-exams

@HebeMumsnet

Do you perhaps mean 'amendments' rather than 'amends'? You weren't asking the page to forgive you, were you?

Back to the point of the thread, MN's approach to revenue generation gets more and more dubious.

It's still advertising the stuff OP is complaining about?

What part of

Efalex Brain Formula has been clinically proven to support children's brain function, including learning and concentration. Over the past three decades, Efamol has pioneered research into essential fatty acids and children's brain health, including 10 clinical studies proving the efficacy of the Efalex formulation in supporting their learning and development. The new concentrated Efalex formula provides the same researched levels of essential fatty acids in just two capsules, supporting brain health for the whole family.

isn't implying that it'll improve kids' performance in exams? In a sponsored by them post that's all about getting parents to give their children these during exam time?

The entire concept is hinky as hell.

Agreed. This is dodgy as.

Dear Mumsnet. Do better. Stop advertising snake oil, please.

This is extremely close to making a medical claim. Food supplements may not make medical clams.

I suggest Mumsnet look into this more closely. Start here perhaps. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nutrition-legislation-information-sources/nutrition-legislation-information-sheet--2#nutrition-and-health-claims-made-on-food

Yeah, I would say this is a medical claim. MN, I suggest this gets taken down...

and I will report this ad.

They've been taking money from advertisers for promoting gambling apps all over the app (including on the addiction support board) for weeks now, so this doesn't surprise me Banner advert in the app www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/5031542-banner-advert-in-the-app

Responses from Mumsnet have been sparse in the extreme.

Page appears to be down now. Assuming it’s deliberate, thanks to Mumsnet for listening.

Hello

Thank you for letting us know about this - we have removed the page now.

Thank you very much

Well done @60andsomething

You managed to get MN to actually take action

Agreed, well done OP.