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a truely remarcable thing
Dec. 11th, 2008 01:03 pmthis happened a few days ago in Belgium. At a certain moment I was thinking that I'm in the USA, but that would be too offensive to my American friends, because not even their media are that stupid.
A well known pharmaceutical company (Omega Pharma) released a "GSM radiation protection chip" that is classical snake-oil: it works as by magic with QM, you just need to stick it on the GSM and ,amazingly for a pharma company, there are no serious studies to prove that it actually works. There is as with all pseudo science products a lot of nice looking pictures, a lot of complex words and a VIP (for small values of V and of I) that is promoting it.
The difference between this and the other voodoo stuff is that it is sold by the pharmacists!
What should we take away from this? Three things: don't trust medicines made by omega pharma and if you have stock in that company then sell, sell, sell! Now!. Oh and that even 'serious' journalists will just repeat whatever junk is being said to them.
More info in English here and on several facebook 'that stuff is snake-oil' groups...
A well known pharmaceutical company (Omega Pharma) released a "GSM radiation protection chip" that is classical snake-oil: it works as by magic with QM, you just need to stick it on the GSM and ,amazingly for a pharma company, there are no serious studies to prove that it actually works. There is as with all pseudo science products a lot of nice looking pictures, a lot of complex words and a VIP (for small values of V and of I) that is promoting it.
The difference between this and the other voodoo stuff is that it is sold by the pharmacists!
What should we take away from this? Three things: don't trust medicines made by omega pharma and if you have stock in that company then sell, sell, sell! Now!. Oh and that even 'serious' journalists will just repeat whatever junk is being said to them.
More info in English here and on several facebook 'that stuff is snake-oil' groups...
