Power balance is royally spanked by the ACCC.
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Tags: ACCC, Australia, hologram, power balance bracelet, powerbalance, powerband, quacks, scam, skeptic
Posted in Health & Medicine, Skepticism, Quacks, Woo & Scams • 13 Comments »
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Tags: children, comic, health, medicine, quacks, StopAVN, vaccination
Posted in General, Health & Medicine, Politics and Society, Skepticism, Quacks, Woo & Scams • 2 Comments »
Looks like a few people are worried they might have a fake power balance bracelet. Here’s how to tell you’ve been scammed.
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Tags: authentic, fake, hoax, iRenew, placebo, power balance bracelet, powerbalance, powerband, quacks, scam, scumbags, skeptic
Posted in Funny, General, Skepticism, Quacks, Woo & Scams • 141 Comments »
There’s apparently some unauthorised snake-oil sales going on in relation to the rather too profitable “rubber bands with holograms” bracelet industry: Power balance.
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Tags: fitness, placebo, power balance bracelet, powerbalance, powerband, quacks, scam, skeptic, snake oil
Posted in General, Skepticism, Quacks, Woo & Scams • 73 Comments »
It seems someone tested the dubious communication of the “coma man” who supposedly was “talking” via a facilitator after 23 years of being trapped in a coma.
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Tags: coma, communication, medicine, miracle, quacks, skeptic
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What is homoeopathy? What is the 10:23 campaign? And what’s this about water having a memory and boots selling sugar pills?
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Tags: 1023, Boots chemist, health, homeopathy, homoeopathy, medicine, quacks, skeptic, snake oil
Posted in Atheism, Ethics and Religion, General, Health & Medicine, Science and Techie stuff • 2 Comments »
Wrote a letter to the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday about the ridiculously vague “miracle” attributed to Mary Mackillop and it ended up published.
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Tags: atheism, catholics, Mary Mackillop, medicine, miracle, placebo, quacks, religion, SMH, stupidity
Posted in Atheism, Ethics and Religion, General, Health & Medicine, Politics and Society, Skepticism, Quacks, Woo & Scams • 4 Comments »
