WTF cycling product.?!^%

Tynan thank you for this - i started reading it in a quiet university library and was in hysterics and had to go out into the corridor - amazing

i lightly giggled, though i am wearing my patented emotion reduction bracelet.
using the power of ancient aztec mountain stone, it purifies even the most intense emotions and distills them to a minor state of arousal, thus allowing you to peruse amusing sites on the web even in designated quiet zones.
£10.99 for 0.01mg in a livestrong bracelet- see it as two birds, one stone.

http://theinnerring.blogspot.com/2010/08/power-balance-under-investigation.html

http://theinnerring.blogspot.com/2010/08/power-balance-under-investigation.html

From your link:

"But now the Italian police are on the case. According to Corriere, the company distributing them in Italy is under investigation since the plastic bands are marketed as offering pseudo-health benefits, and in order to make statements like this, Italian law demands proof and justification."

It's the same in the UK, the Trade Descriptions Act (1968) makes it an offence for a trader to apply, by any means, false or misleading statements.

you are a funny fucker as well as being a wondrfule healer mr tynan

From your link:

"But now the Italian police are on the case. According to Corriere, the company distributing them in Italy is under investigation since the plastic bands are marketed as offering pseudo-health benefits, and in order to make statements like this, Italian law demands proof and justification."

It's the same in the UK, the Trade Descriptions Act (1968) makes it an offence for a trader to apply, by any means, false or misleading statements.

That is full of win!!

Fucking awesome work t-bone! LMAO LOL VOM ETC :D

You should start a website like that 419 scammer site where all the healers and nutrishunizts and shit are shown the true healing light.

One of the effects of this sort of stuff are probably the copycats. I could fully imagine some unimaginative person just setting up with a carbon copy of a well-known "healer"'s concept and wisdom. Not that I'm saying that anyone has ever made such a suggestion, ever. But I just got this as spam:

<name removed in order for it not to be Googleable, although that is a shame, as it's quite funny> - New energy for life Experience instant results the moment you begin using the <name removed in order for it not to be Googleable, although that is a shame, as it's quite funny> Energy Balance System products. You will get more energy, better sleep, increase in strength, greater flexibility, enhanced balance and healthier blood.

You should start a website like that 419 scammer site where all the healers and nutrishunizts and shit are shown the true healing light.

Make them balance pineapples on their head to show their true healing balance. :)

I bless you with my bright white light.
Through the day and also through the night.
Let the spirits guide your heart.
And also help you paint some art.
We are one soul, beautiful and sublime.
Dancing like robots on the edge of time
Dancing like robots on the edge of time
Dancing like robots on the edge of time
Dancing like robots on the edge of time

(repeat to fade)

Lolololololooolllllll!!!!

"Dancing like robots on the edge of time"!!!

She keeps responding, does that imply she doesn't sell many DVD's for £875 ?

you are a funny fucker as well as being a wondrfule healer mr tynan

You still owe me £200 from sorting your balls out over the phone.

You still owe me £200 from sorting your balls out over the phone.

How much would you charge to sort out hemorrhoids?

One of the effects of this sort of stuff are probably the copycats.

Bullshit is big business, Robyn herself charges £220 for a single phone session - with the 'cure' taking a few sessions.

But of course the real problem with these 'healers' is that patients are advised to stop their cancer drugs, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and deal with their melanomas through magical powers 'transmitted' over a few (very very expensive) phone calls.

I don't doubt, beyond being laughable idiots deserving nothing more than contempt, that these healers actually leave people disabled/injured and even dead with their advice.

How much would you charge to sort out haemorrhoids?

Anal crystals are £30 for a pack of 5, you will need 2 packs, so £200 in total.

Lolololololooolllllll!!!!

"Dancing like robots on the edge of time"!!!

Powerful healing lyrics, I know. Try them next time you get worms.

I don't doubt, beyond being laughable idiots deserving nothing more than contempt, that these healers actually leave people disabled/injured and even dead with their advice.

Do you have links to documented cases where this has actually happened, or are they merely suspected owing to being hard to document/hard to track down?

For me, quite apart from possible consequences for people's physical health, the key thing to understand about esoterics is that it fills a 'need' for many people with mental health difficulties. Their ability to think clearly is often impaired, so that they look for easy 'solutions'--things that superficially seem to make sense (in their condition) and mask some/all of the problems that they are wrestling with--looking for an ideal world, or at least a world in which, while it's not 'ideal', they can feel special, and part of the '(s)elect'.

Much of esoterics creates the illusion of an 'antidote to science'--esotericists exploit people's unhappiness with a vision of a world as painted by scientismists (for want of a better word)/people's warped perception of science, in order to try and replace it with their random concoctions of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo, e.g. Ms Welch's crap about 'quantums'. Suddenly, you don't have to be a clever scientist any more to understand the world. You can just follow the leader/sophist and trust their 'judgement'. It's something at which you don't have to work--you just have to accept that the 'leader' is right (and these people are often extremely persuasive and manipulative to the vulnerable).

The upshot is that it can get people deeper and deeper into their mental problems--it serves to prevent decisive action to change the situation for the better, make a break with the past, etc. I know of three cases personally where that has happened. In some cases, I don't doubt, finding something to cling onto is life-preserving, or may even keep people out of secure facilities, but it's not much of a 'life'. Generally, I think it leads to people becoming isolated and thinking the world is out to get them, while (in some cases) seemingly preserving a sunny disposition, but still having things eating away inside.

Right down to payment, one of the things for which Plato criticised the sophists the most, the parallels with ancient sophism are very striking, and in that sense it is of course not only pseudo-science, but also pseudo-philosophy.

http://whatstheharm.net/alternativemedicine.html

yeah that would work to treat a cancer tumour..

"Pappas, meanwhile, continues to insist the machine "is absolutely safe," and that it "can cure cancer and AIDS.""

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004022178_miracle19m2.html

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Fuck me..http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/2005/04/23/1009740-sun.html
*

After consulting a crystal ball, a pendulum and an angel, a naturopath replaced Lisanne's
insulin with a variety of natural remedies to "detoxify" her. She died only three days after beginning treatment. The naturopath was convicted of manslaughter.*

It looks like "Quantum" is the new buzz-word in this bullshit...

http://www.ponsaty.com/My_Practice.html

You still owe me £200 from sorting your balls out over the phone.

the lord himself will provide apostle Tynan

[I still have a dent in the handset of my phone where you placed my 'seat of life' during our last healing session and if that's not proof enough that I had been touched by an angel then we are living in a dark and unbelieving universe]

if that's not proof enough that I had been touched by an angel then we are living in a dark and unbelieving universe]

Wayne, we are living in a dark and unbelieving universe:

;P

Even in the dark times there is lycra clad zebra love shining bright against the mouldy wall of life (north London).

those shorts are giving off very powerful healing vibrations