{"id":358,"date":"2007-03-26T06:52:11","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=358"},"modified":"2007-03-26T06:52:11","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T13:52:11","slug":"applied-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/26\/applied-chemistry\/","title":{"rendered":"Applied Chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nTwo teenagers in New Zealand performed a test on a popular children&#8217;s drink, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ribena.co.uk\/index_flash.html\">Ribena<\/a>, as part of their chemistry assignment. The company (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsk.com\/\">GlaxoSmithKline<\/a>) claimed &#8220;4 times the vitamin C as found in oranges.&#8221; The experiment found almost no vitamin C at which point the girls assumed they had done something wrong in the procedure.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nBut alas, they repeated their experiment several times and asked others to do the same and the result did not change. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsk.com\/\">GSK<\/a> now faces 15 charges of misleading the public and up to $2M in fines&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll bet this is a chemistry lesson the teenagers won&#8217;t soon forget (nor will the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsk.com\/\">GSK marketroids<\/a>&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two teenagers in New Zealand performed a test on a popular children&#8217;s drink, Ribena, as part of their chemistry assignment. The company (GlaxoSmithKline) claimed &#8220;4 times the vitamin C as found in oranges.&#8221; The experiment found almost no vitamin C at which point the girls assumed they had done something wrong in the procedure. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}