WTF cycling product.?!^%

Like the placebo effect isn't scientifically valid. Sigh

I sell anti-magnetic place mats for just such auratic stones. They eliminate the magnetic field emanating from the planet earth, thereby nullifying the interference between the stone and your aura.
I am currently running a special promotion whereby you can buy 1 for the measly sum of £350 and or 2 for £750.

occasionally it changes to purple but only if you buy the extra £30 of accessories..

Oh no no. Sorry its not for me.

Like the placebo effect isn't scientifically valid. Sigh

I'm not saying the placebo effect is not scientifically valid.

seriuz?

Do you want to buy my rock that keeps tigers away?

Does it work on bears?

hmm, depends where in the world you are. Central London (not near a zoo) - yes.

but only for an extra fee.

Also, don't ask me how or why it works, just pay me.

Newsnight currently taking apart homeopathic immunisations, including a bit of Mitchel & Webb. Excellent.

I'm not saying the placebo effect is not scientifically valid.

So, what are you saying? That no one else's pain relief experiences are vaild unless they are "scientifically" valid? Sound like extreme intellectual arrogance if you are? Would have also hindered the development of a lot of western medicine were it to have been the dominant attitude over the past couple of hundred years.

so you're saying that validating medicines through scientifically falsifying whether or not they actually work is holding back western medicine? Why shouldn't we test whether folk medicine has any real effect? That's how we've discovered a lot of the drugs we have now. The ones that do work, we develop and try to make them more effective. The ones that don't shouldn't be promoted and placed alongside genuine medicine.

The Placebo effect does have a place in medicine but I don't think it should be used instead of scientifically proven ways of making us better.

http://www.cyclingtipsblog.com/2011/01/your-2011-cycling-horoscope/

'As a Leo you are old-school, fixed...'

As a piscean shoes are a ball ache.

#runsofftofashionableandexpensivefootwearthread

Pisceans are also highly susceptible to alcohol and drugs

Got this reply from Wiggle

T*hank you for your email.

These products are going to be removed from our site due to the lack of evidence supporting the Power Balance claims.

*Still being advertised on the site though.

PM tynan, he has the email address of that other weirdo.

Try searching for tynan (In 'members') and see what you get. Odd.

Isnt he £100 now?

Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.

O yeah. Odd.

^I think I would believe you an additional 56% if you were to have typed in capital letters.

He would only have got a sore throat from shouting, though.

and they have 'complimentary medicine' paid for by the NHS.*

'complementary medicine'

Just sent an e-mail to Wiggle asking if they are now going to stop selling them.

Well that seemed to work, link dead now.

Just sent an e-mail to Wiggle asking if they are now going to stop selling them.

Got this reply from Wiggle

T*hank you for your email.

These products are going to be removed from our site due to the lack of evidence supporting the Power Balance claims.

*Still being advertised on the site though.

With all due respect, is it really any of your business?

With all due respect, what the fuck are you talking about now?
It's a shop selling fraudulent goods; it is anyone's business who cares to make the small effort to ask them if they are going to stop ripping off their customers. Especially as it is a cycling shop and this is a cycling forum and, perhaps, other people feel like I do: namely that I am not going to give my money to people who carry on selling crap even when the makers of that crap themselves have ceded the point. And if they choose to do so I am going to let other cyclists know so that they can decide if they want to take their custom somewhere else.

I'm with Will on this one.