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Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop $120 'Bio-Frequency Healing' Sticker Packs Get Shot Down by NASA (fastcompany.com)
From a report: Goop had claimed the costly "Body Vibes" stickers were "made with the same conductive carbon material NASA uses to line space suits so they can monitor an astronaut's vitals during wear" and because of that were able to "target imbalances" of the human body's energy frequencies when they get thrown out of whack, reports Gizmodo. The thing is, NASA confirmed to Gizmodo that they "do not have any conductive carbon material lining the spacesuits" of astronauts. Further reading: The unbearable wrongness of Gwyneth Paltrow - The Outline.
If you could sue on the basis of 'prove it!'.
Don't make it easy - if you fail to win the suit you'd have to cover reasonable legal costs or something - but when someone advertises a magic sticker that fixes your health problems, ANYONE ought to be able to sue the snake oil salesmen regardless of whether or not they have personally purchased the product.
I'm sure there are packs of hungry lawyers out there who would love to make a living reading ads searching for a payday, I say let's put them to good use.
1. Don't eat too much
2. Eat lots of different things
3. Eat mostly plants
4. Get enough exercise, ask your doctor how much
5. Go to your doctor regularly and do what he/she says
6. Unless your doctor says you need them, don't take vitamins, or supplements, or any pill or liquid that says "this product has not been evaluated by the FDA to treat any..."
There, that's all you need. Just saved you a bunch of money. You're welcome.
disproves the belief that being rich means you must be smart.
In fact, to all appearances the US has developed the kind of feckless hereditary aristocracy that P.G. Wodehouse used to satirize in his novels -- only American women are every bit the equal of men when it comes to inanity.
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"Body Vibes" stickers were "made with the same conductive carbon material NASA uses to line space suits so they can monitor an astronaut's vitals during wear" and because of that were able to "target imbalances" of the human body's energy frequencies when they get thrown out of whack
I feel dumber for having read that.
Time to offend someone
She should've sold something more reputable, like carbon credits; then the company wouldn't even need to ship a product at all.
As an actual scientist sometimes I wish I was shameless enough to get into this sort of business. You apparently don't have to even make it sound plausible! I suppose I do have coworkers that sell essential oils on the side, which is more or less the same thing. Maybe I'll sell essential oil distillation kits out of 'toxin free' glass...
"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
- Posted from my iPhone.
Have gnu, will travel.
Ah it's you again*. While I find your fascination with male-on-male fisting a bit weird I have to reply as that such a text could very well be a novel, a pornographic** novel but still a novel.
(* I'm assuming you are the same dude(?) that have posted similar things earlier)
(** assuming it is written for pornographic purposes)
If you are dumb enough to stick a rock in your vagina, boy do you deserve what you get!
Bearded Dragon
I'm not sure what you're talking about, but one of Goop's products is indeed vaginal. Colbert was talking about it Wednesday night. It's a small, strategically shaped stone that's used for exercises and claims to "improve vaginal muscle tone." It probably works better than balancing your body's energy frequencies with a sticker. Everyone knows that your can't balance your body's energy frequencies without magnets.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Best line in TFA:
Where can I get a free taxidermied honey badger?
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
She's Blonde, Hot, and makes shitloads of money in the movies.
Why is she into this shit?
Wait...she's Blonde, hot, and in the movies.
Never mind.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
If someone borrowed my honey badger and it came back with cervix squeezens all over it's face, I wouldn't ever loan them anything again. Might be upset.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Why do urban legends propagate? They're always described in exciting but plausible ways and often contain just a grain of truth. Moreover, occasionally an urban legend is true, as you can see from a minority of entries on the Snopes database.
Interest in quack medicine stems from a variety of factors, different for different people, including:
- People with real health problems who were let down by real MDs. This happens a lot, because not every MD can diagnose every illness. Meanwhile, so many alternative practitioners claim to be willing to help in ways that MDs "won't."
- Various paranoid delusions about the government or "establishment" doctors trying to control or poison us.
- Actual instances of governments letting us down (e.g. Flint, Michigan).
- People with mental instability or who have been convinced they have some nebulous malady.
- People with very minor health problems (e.g. a mild dairy sensitivity) who self-diagnose as something much worse.
- People who read too much into what they got from 23andme and nutrihacker.
- People who fall victims to charlatans who want to make money from your real or perceived illnesses.
- On and on.
What keeps people sucked in is that what the charlatans are saying have a grain of plausibility and truth.
Take toxins for example. So many of these weirdos go on and on about toxins, but they're almost never specific about it. My MD (who has her degree from Yale) has a list of common ones. If someone telling you about toxins can't cough up something like that, you should tell them to fuck off.
However, there are indeed toxins in our environment. Plus, things you eat and byproducts of pathogens also bring toxins into or bodies. In fact, most plants produce toxins as an adaptation against predation, and as consumers of those organisms, we are also counter-adapted to efficiently denature those toxins. Aside from some of the nastier ones (e.g. like an arsenic overdose), a healthy liver does a good job of cleaning that up, and you excrete them as waste. I don't recommend exposing yourself to too many environmental toxins, and I would suggest avoiding certain conventionally grown foods that absorb higher amounts of pesticides, but pretty much, most people are going to be okay and should just focus on good exercise and a balanced diet (although there is plenty of confusion out there on what constitutes a balanced diet).
What's unfortunate is that there are indeed people who have problems with toxin build-up. But those people have some other underlying condition that scientifically explains why their livers aren't doing such a good job. An obvious one is alcoholics who have wrecked their livers over decades of overconsumption. Another example is people with untreated thyroid function, because there are aspects of detoxification that are regulated by thyroid hormones. I am highly skeptical of "detox programs," because toxin accumulation is never the root cause. If you fix the underlying condition, then your body will detoxify itself. So taking a bunch of crap meant to "stimulate" detox is likely to cause you more harm than good.
I actually have a bunch of symptoms that those people would associate with toxification problems. My MD figured out, for instance, that my thyroid function was not up to par and prescribed T3 supplementation. It is helping because there isn't anything broken about my liver itself.
I have encountered one detox protocol that I didn't think was utter shit. It's called ProtoClear, and all it is is vitamins and other nutrients you already need, but in their biologically active forms. For instance, instead of cyanocobalamin, it contains methylcobalamin. One ingredient I recall that fell short is that it contains folic acid instead of methylfolate. I actually have the MTHFR A1298C mutation, heterozygous, so my body's conversion may not be 100% efficient; it doesn't seem to be a big deal. Anyway, the idea is that if you take these chemicals that you need in their active forms, t
I'd suggest starting with acquiring a vagina. The badger follows that step.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
1. Do not take medical advice from the Internet.
There. That will save some time.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
When all you have is a taxidermied honey badger, every hole is a vagina.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)