Deceive Yourselves (Trying To Hurt Big Pharma)

"A vitamin manufacturer reported by Hungarian media to have close ties with the Scientology movement has been punished by the Hungarian competition authority with a fine of €368,500.

The record penalty - unique in its kind - has to be paid by a company owned by Gabor Lenkei for misleading consumers. Mr Lenkei's firm, Free Choice, had used stories of 'satisfied consumers' and 'miracles' in its marketing drive: some blind 'patients' got back their eyesight, people suffering from diabetes stopped taking insulin, headaches disappeared, women managed to become pregnant and all 'thanks to' the vitamins. Mr Lenkei's self-published books made similar claims.

Consumers saying what they experienced enjoy the right of free expression. Mr Lenkei, who describes himself as a researcher (who tried to cure HIV by giving magnetised distilled water to patients), has also suggested that his vitamins are an alternative to multinational drug companies which are only after big profits.

Free Choice had net income of €10 million in 2007 and €6 million in 2008, running 19 franchise shops and a home delivery website.

Hungarian health authorities had earlier ruled that 22 out of the 39 vitamin pills sold by the company contained excessive doses of B6 and B12 vitamins.

Hungarian media reports say that Mr Lenkei is one of the biggest financial supporters of the Hungarian chapter of the Scientology movement, which itself uses vitamins during its 'purification processes.'"

-- Gyorgy Folk, another one of those nice Scientology folk - you couldn't find a more honest bunch of NewAgers on the planet - because it's all the others who are liars, and ripe for an investigation by The European Union Observer.