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hahah so the tornado fuel saver has some competition. joke's on them though, you'll make more money bilking people if your product is made of punched sheet metal rather than milled aluminum.
 
Slew Foot said:
Looks like we found the two stupidest members of ATOT. Quebert and the Chiroquackter. No surprise really.
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wtf? when did i say that i actually believed these bracelets worked? i think i remember saying that i didn't think they had any benefit, even if they actually did improve balance.

i didn't say they worked... however, what i did say is that if there was someone who was perceiving a benefit from it, i wouldn't try and negate it. it's all a mental thing and i'm not going to ruin that for them if their brain is helping them out. i also said that if quebert thinks he's getting benefit from it, good... if he feels like he's gotten his moneys worth, why be a dick about it?
 
Squisher said:
At what point would you be willing to "talk shit" about people who you perceive to feel a benefit from something that provides no benefit? If I were to wear a tinfoil hat into your office and told you that it was the only means by which I was able to leave my house would you only be thankful that I found a means to leave the house. If along with the tinfoil hat I hopped to your office on one foot because I it fooled the earthworms into allowing me out of the house would you still be accepting of my methods.

What I'm getting at is where would you draw the line? Is there any action by anybody that you find foolhardy?
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i gave up whenever i wasted hours and hours arguing with religious folk and republicans about their beliefs and points of view. now, as long as it doesn't affect me or disturb the people around me, i am cool to live and let live.
 
eits said:
wtf? when did i say that i actually believed these bracelets worked? i think i remember saying that i didn't think they had any benefit, even if they actually did improve balance.

i didn't say they worked... however, what i did say is that if there was someone who was perceiving a benefit from it, i wouldn't try and negate it. it's all a mental thing and i'm not going to ruin that for them if their brain is helping them out. i also said that if quebert thinks he's getting benefit from it, good... if he feels like he's gotten his moneys worth, why be a dick about it?
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I think the reason why you are being attacked over this is because you are in the "medical" field and should call a spade a spade, whether it makes a person upset or not. Your failure to do so hints at some indirect support for the product in the minds of some here, given your past history with silly things such as a chiropractor curing ADD.
 
QueBert said:
[/B]033016]Doubt it, why would they pick an unknown NBA trainer to endorse a product? 99.9% people don't even know who the fuck he is. Shaq swears by them too, and I could see the people behind the product paying somebody like Shaq to endorse it. But he doesn't need money so and they couldn't afford his asking price any ways so it's highly unlikely he wears them because he's getting paid.
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Head trainer for the pheonix suns? it got you to buy one didnt it.
 
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nick1985 said:
I think the reason why you are being attacked over this is because you are in the "medical" field and should call a spade a spade, whether it makes a person upset or not. Your failure to do so hints at some indirect support for the product in the minds of some here, given your past history with silly things such as a chiropractor curing ADD.
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first, i never claim to cure anything. secondly, whether you agree with it or not, chiropractic care can help decrease a.d.d. symptoms in kids and potentially improve scholastic performance. it doesn't happen for everyone and i express that to people. the way the a child's nervous system develops is dependent on nutrition, motion, and biomechanics of the body. please, let's NOT turn this thread into yet another chiropractic argument thread that will eventually get locked.

finally, i'm getting attacked because i'm not attacking? that's stupid. i've stated my point of view about the product and how i don't feel it does what it claims and, even if it did, it would still be kinda pointless. why should i attack people who think that it is helping them? if they feel like they're being helped by it (for example, a pitcher who does better wearing his lucky hat versus wearing a different hat), then why try and dispell that? what benefit would the person have by having a person feel like that?

personally, i don't care whether someone thinks that they perform better by rubbing a buffalo wing on their hand before playing a sport or doing an activity. if it makes them play better, then they can do it until their heart's content. it's not hurting them, so whatever. i know better, but why would i want to ruin it for them? there's a lot to be said for the benefit people have from the placebo effect.

with that said, i won't willingly try and sell someone something that i believe to be bogus. if i know something that i feel to be placebo-based, i would feel uncomfortable selling it to patients (for example, homeopathic hcg diet and these wristbands). if they want to do it, fine... if they get benefit from it, great. i'm not going to be the miserable asshole who goes around mean to people or telling them what they believe to be true is bullshit.
 
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eits said:
i'm not going to be the miserable asshole who goes around mean to people or telling them what they believe to be true is bullshit.
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bullshit
eits said:
i don't get the flu shot because i think it's bullshit.
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eits said:
yeah, it's capitalism and there's nothing wrong with capitalism, but when you're brainwashing an uninformed and unsuspecting public into believing they need something you're selling, it's bullshit.

most of the drugs you see advertised on tv are bullshit drugs that people don't need.
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Gibsons said:
bullshit
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in regards to the flu shot, you took what i said out of context and, also, i admit to being pretty hyperbolic in my statement.

in regards to prescription drugs, i may consider them bullshit, but i don't go around telling patients they're stupid for taking them or telling them that their drugs are bullshit. i just tell them that i will work with them and their doctors to try and get them off some of the drugs they're on.
 
eits said:
first, i never claim to cure anything. secondly, whether you agree with it or not, chiropractic care can help decrease a.d.d. symptoms in kids and potentially improve scholastic performance. it doesn't happen for everyone and i express that to people. the way the a child's nervous system develops is dependent on nutrition, motion, and biomechanics of the body. please, let's NOT turn this thread into yet another chiropractic argument thread that will eventually get locked.

finally, i'm getting attacked because i'm not attacking? that's stupid. i've stated my point of view about the product and how i don't feel it does what it claims and, even if it did, it would still be kinda pointless. why should i attack people who think that it is helping them? if they feel like they're being helped by it (for example, a pitcher who does better wearing his lucky hat versus wearing a different hat), then why try and dispell that? what benefit would the person have by having a person feel like that?

personally, i don't care whether someone thinks that they perform better by rubbing a buffalo wing on their hand before playing a sport or doing an activity. if it makes them play better, then they can do it until their heart's content. it's not hurting them, so whatever. i know better, but why would i want to ruin it for them? there's a lot to be said for the benefit people have from the placebo effect.

with that said, i won't willingly try and sell someone something that i believe to be bogus. if i know something that i feel to be placebo-based, i would feel uncomfortable selling it to patients (for example, homeopathic hcg diet and these wristbands). if they want to do it, fine... if they get benefit from it, great. i'm not going to be the miserable asshole who goes around mean to people or telling them what they believe to be true is bullshit.
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Wait... I thought they weren't passing out shovels until 3:00PM today!?!?!
 
exdeath said:
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So...this thing is just two sets of fan blades in a cylinder?
Wouldn't that actually (slightly) increase the work the car needs to do, since it has to use more energy to draw air through the intake? (Not that anyone buying it would care about reality. 😉)



They should've gone all out and equipped it with magnets, some polished jade inlay, and a hologram sticker. Just hang a rabbit's foot from your rear-view mirror, put a horseshoe in the trunk, and you could probably drive blindfolded without any problems.
 
Well, this is appropriate. The forums are advertising "Airborne" at the bottom of the page. It's one of those "Vitamin C helps you overcome the flu" products (to those in the know, it can't possibly help AFTER you are sick).

No, I refuse to use AdBlock on Anandtech.
 
OutHouse said:
Head trainer for the pheonix suns? it got you to buy one didnt it.
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NOPE, I never said I bought one, because I haven't...

I said I know somebody who had one and I tried it out, the placebo effect worked on me. But I don't own one, so all the head trainer did was get me to want to try one. I really have no interest to actually go out and purchase one though. The Placebo effect works amazingly well on plenty of people. A 20 cent rubber band could do the same thing as this, but it doesn't look as good. I mean this band is $20, and if the Placebo effect works, $20's chump change. People on here will spent $300 on a video card because it can get slighty better frame rates over their old one. Which already got FPS that was too high for their eye to detect any ways. I could think of many things that don't have any real benefit, a lot of which cost 10-20 times what this does.
 
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When I watch the commercial I do not see a placebo effect. I see them using a different kind of push to off balance.

Simply physics/magic trick.
 
lmao! The Ads by Google at the bottom of the page: Rubber Wrist Bracelets. Lowest Price Guarantee! No Minimum. Customize Wristbands.

Maybe I'll customize a bunch of wristbands to mark them "better balance, new and improved." The improvement will be a better color. New, because they're not used. And, I can get in on a piece of that 35 million market to idiots.
 
Jeff7 said:
So...this thing is just two sets of fan blades in a cylinder?
Wouldn't that actually (slightly) increase the work the car needs to do, since it has to use more energy to draw air through the intake? (Not that anyone buying it would care about reality. 😉)
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That's exactly what would happen. I remember watching the Vornado commercials years ago, and their claim is fairly plausible on the surface. Creating smaller particles should increase combustion efficiency. What they neglect to mention though, is after the gas air mixture as been thoroughly atomized, it goes in the cylinder, and gets mushed together by the piston, negating the atomizing effect :^D
 
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