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**Please Do Not Join This Site Unless You Understand The Rules**
3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog —
Authority: 584
**Please Do Not Join This Site Unless You Understand The Rules**Are you ready to turn away from the scams and the schemes and the promises of easy money that never seem to work out? Are you ready to stop chasing after every “biz opp” that lands in your email inbox? Are you tired of being [...]2 days ago -
Healthcare Reform Bills Legitimize Quackery
Better Health —
Authority: 543
I’ve been warning folks about this for years - and alas, fake medicine and quackery has finally oiled its way into the healthcare reform bills. We are in the midst of a growing primary care shortage, and on the brink of vastly expanding health insurance coverage without increasing the supply of physicians and ...3 days ago -
Global warming proven to be a hoax, but Obama still bows to U.N. climate change committee
Stupidica —
Authority: 177
We should all be very thankful today. Our long, national nightmare is over. Global warming has finally been proven to be a hoax. A sham. An elaborate scheme concocted by snake oil salesmen to line their pockets and acquire more power. The entire house of cards came crashing down in this week. Original Article: Forum: ...6 days ago -
LessLoss BlackBody: improve your sound for just $959 and your sense of reason
Tech News Time —
Authority: 150
The high-end audio market has always been more about marketing than about music, but it’s hard to say if we’ve ever seen a product as phenomenally insane as the LessLoss BlackBody , a $959 block of plastic that designer Louis Motek says “takes advantage of the quantum nature of particle interaction” to ...1 week ago -
Wow who new parliament could be fun :)
Doug's Dynamic Drivel —
Authority: 141
Watch a British parliamentary committee destroy homeopathy – pay attention to the testimony of Dr Ben Goldacre (middle person at the table) who is, of course. the author of the Bad Science site. It was very funny to watch the homeopaths squirm. You can watch at ...1 week ago -
LessLoss Blackbody Improves Stereo Sound With Slippery Snake Oil Science [Audio]
F-Default —
Authority: 469
Step right up and marvel at the latest innovation in audio technology. Read more: LessLoss Blackbody Improves Stereo Sound With Slippery Snake Oil Science [Audio]1 week ago -
LessLoss Blackbody Improves Stereo Sound With Slippery Snake Oil Science [Audio]
Gizmodo —
Authority: 885
Step right up and marvel at the latest innovation in audio technology. The LessLoss Blackbody ...box...thingy claims to improve stereo sound simply by being placed next to your gear. How does it work? I havent the slightest idea. The Blackbody is a high-tech audio accessory which greatly enhances your audio ...1 week ago -
LessLoss BlackBody: improve your sound for just $959 and your sense of reason
F-Default —
Authority: 469
The high-end audio market has always been more about marketing than about music, but it’s hard to say if we’ve ever seen a product as phenomenally insane as the LessLoss BlackBody, a $959 block of plastic that designer Louis Motek says “takes advantage of the quantum nature of particle interaction” to ...1 week ago -
LessLoss BlackBody: improve your sound for just $959 and your sense of reason
MainGadget —
Authority: 164
The high-end audio market has always been more about marketing than about music, but it’s hard to say if we’ve ever seen a product as phenomenally insane as the LessLoss BlackBody, a $959 block of plastic that designer Louis Motek says “takes advantage of the quantum nature of particle interaction” to improve ...1 week ago -
Cartoon Of The Day: ClimateGate
Evaluation —
Authority: 145
[IMG: http://lh3.ggpht.com/_9VGZjBQHr0s/Sw0owS54z3I/AAAAAAAAESc/i1PUaF2Gnis/2007-05-18Gore.jpg]1 week ago -
some new snake oil from kaspersky
anti-virus rants —
Authority: 449
i found this out thanks to a thread at wilders - apparently kaspersky is taking a page out of the mcafee snake oil playbook. mcafee has total protection and now kaspersky has total security. ive been over this time and time again - this kind of branding is snake oil. the obvious implication that the average ...1 week ago -
The Epic Failure of the Main Stream Media
The Lonely Conservative —
Authority: 575
How many investigative journalists work for main stream media organizations? There must be quite a few between the three television networks, the cable outlets and the big newspapers like the New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today(not to mention all the other newspapers in cities throughout the US.) You ...1 week ago -
What if your Virusproof Computer Catches a Virus?
ThreatBlog —
Authority: 567
An Australian company claims to have launched a “virusproof” computer. They even say “ A fast, easy to use, computer that never gets viruses, EVER !” and then on the same page say “In the rare event that you manage to catch a virus on your virusproof computer, we will re-load both Zone 1 and Zone 2 onto ...1 week ago -
Hey! Pseudoscientists! Leave them kids alone!
A life less ordinary? —
Authority: 127
The name alone makes no sense: "Scientific Link to Autism Identified." What does that even mean? As opposed to a "nonscientific link"? A "religious link"? A "philosophical link"? A "chain link"? And it simply gets worse from there. First of all, if you can find a worse example of a news release, please ...1 week ago -
Commit Before Taking Weight Loss Medicine
Weight Loss Tips —
Authority: 138
There are many different types of weight loss medicine available today. Some pills are hyped as medicine thats prescription strength and as effective as a prescription but you can order them off the television, online or through the mail. Dont.…1 week ago -
A new nonsense afoot
A life less ordinary? —
Authority: 127
Read this one today. It starts with several paragraphs of garbage masquerading as science-speak (e.g., " By looking at extensive scientific literature they discovered a cascade of hormones that emanate from the brain (hypothalamus)." Really? Gee. Thatll be a huge surprise to all those endocrinologists out there. ...1 week ago -
Follow-up on Thoughtful House suit
A life less ordinary? —
Authority: 127
The Austin mother in the Thoughtful House-related chelation suit has made available a statement regarding her situation, which you can find here at nochelation.org. Feel free to drop off some dollahs while youre there. She notes that: On this waiver Dr. Jepson also refuses to make ...2 weeks ago -
Attention Crazy People: OnLive Will Work on Your iPhone!
Negative Gamer —
Authority: 582
I know I’ve always wanted to play the latest in High Definition gaming on my 3.5-inch cell phone screen! Now with OnLive, a yet unreleased streaming game service, you will be able to do just that. Supposedly. Kind of. Well, not really. In an effort to keep the wandering attention of the gaming press and appease ...2 weeks ago -
It was only a matter of time
A life less ordinary? —
Authority: 127
A local father is suing the mother of his autistic child because she refuses to sign consent to have their son treated at Thoughtful House with intravenous chelation. The parents are, of course, divorced. The mother has no lawyer, and the father has primary custody. That alone has proved fodder for fallacious ...2 weeks ago -
The Mercola "Facts" redux. Now with inferences and links updates!
A life less ordinary? —
Authority: 127
1. "Fact": Multidose vials of seasonal and injectable H1N1 swine flu vaccines contain MERCURY (all caps theirs), which is a "known neurotoxin." Inference: Getting a flu shot will poison your brain. Observations: The actual compound of the preservative in question is called thimerosal. It consists in part ...3 weeks ago
