npov tag i know this article is here to promote alt med woo read pseudoscience but since this article is linked from the main article on zinc it ought to have real science first of all it is written like someone from ziccam is promoting products seriously the comment that scientists are trying to sabotage zinc is beyond neutral give me a break and the ionic zinc hypothesis is based on research from years ago if it were really an ongoing theory there would be publications from the last years this is an amusing attempt at advertising