Funniest snake oil theories

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MITsound said:
Then there are the numerous shampoos and other beauty aids, the marketing on some is hilarious.
And there is a BIG part of the problem:
Marketing....
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And people fall for it. When I'm living on campus, there is a "communal trash room" for recycling and trash. When emptying my trash I am regularly alarmed by the number of Axe Body Spray containers in the communal dumpster- in a college dorm no less. As an interesting aside, they are always thrown in the trash rather than the recycling.
 
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midrange said:
Apologies to long term readers of this thread, but I would like to share my all time favourite with recent followers of this thread (where I was introduced to it)

Quantum Clip

Note the price (in 2001)!!!
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Do not accept off shore imitations they do not work . One can only hope they are still supplying the ginger leprechaun ones for that price and not the knock off unicorn dust ones.😱😀😀
 
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H713 said:
And people fall for it. When I'm living on campus, there is a "communal trash room" for recycling and trash. When emptying my trash I am regularly alarmed by the number of Axe Body Spray containers in the communal dumpster- in a college dorm no less. As an interesting aside, they are always thrown in the trash rather than the recycling.
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This is a new one on me being a Brit. I first saw reference to this no doubt finely perfumed product two days ago in a captioned insult on twitter regarding pickup truck owners who like to have a confederate flag in the rear window.
 
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This one covers all bases. Baseless but harmful conspiracy theories and the sale of common gadgets with a hyper inflated price. Wearing a mask and a tinfoil hat at the same time must be hard work. Something of note with all these loony snake oil men (they are alsmost always men) is the invocation of Tesla. His name is the gold standard for any lie and falsehood ridden discourse on why you should part with money or at least sanity in exchange for going down a rabbit hole.
Products - BioShield
Now if only they had something to protect me from getting Windmill cancer😀
 
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No theory in this post, just snake oil. A company based in Norway producing spikes and feet for equipment and speaker cabinets make no claims about what look like urethane feet for equipment. However a company based in Holland selling these feet say this "CD-players, turntables, DVD-players, MD-players, amplifiers, etc. will sound much better with these feet".
So the sound from an amplifier that has zero moving parts will sound better because it has almost €60 of plastic feet?
I thought there was state level legal enforcement on this sort of bogus claim?
 
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I think it is difficult to prove the sound don’t get better by e.g. 0.00001%. Here they sell little plastic washers you have to stick on your wall to ‘improve’ the sound. Or a metal bowl to put on your table to improve the sound. How can you prove this is a ripoff?
 
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Also from the Bioshield Website.

They knew also that any radiation consist of electrons – the expanding light rings spinning around the centering Mind point
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The conclusion is that radiation from any electric device in this civilization is either balanced (if the intent of its creator is GOOD); or imbalanced (if the intent of its creator is BAD). It is known, furthermore, that electric current produces an electric field (radiation) which is propagating around the conducting wire so that anywhere where the electric current exists it creates radiation fields – in other words radiation is an effect of the cause, which is electric current.
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What I'm really not sure about is how their USB dongles are related to this stream of consciousness. I don't have it in me to read anything else on their site.
 
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