Quacks
There’s a new category here called “Quacks” for coverage of medical quackery on my blog. Most quack products include the following caveat on their literature: “These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. The products and/or technologies listed are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, mitigate, or prevent any disease.”
I went to the Bioneers conference over the weekend and while there is much positive and educated thinking about the environment going on, I constantly find myself drawn to the oddball hucksters trying to sucker the public with absurd claims about vague toxins in your body that can be sucked out through a foot bath, plotting your career trajectory based on fingerprints or scare tactics about your ten year old getting brain cancer from electromagnetic pollution if you don’t buy their doohickey. Case in point: Biopro Technologies who I won’t dignify with a link however I will point you to a few sites that have already debunked their bunko:
Not only are they selling quack products but they engage in Multi Level Marketing (MLM) plots to get decent folks to part with their hard earned money in an effort to distribute useless plastic doodads that are probably made in china under the least green conditions imaginable and most likely can’t be recycled. Their founders have “a successful history of experience in the Direct Sales Nutritional arena” Â and “building an international medical device distribution company”. These are not scientists. They are salesmen and experts at “network marketing” AKA MLM.Â
When questioned, their representative told me that their BIOlife Pendant would enhance my biofield. I asked him to define what he meant and he said thay my biofield is my aura and set about proving it by having me place one foot on an extention cord while he tried to throw me off balance by pressing down on my arm, with and without holding the pendant. He simply could not get enough leverage on me for it to make a difference either way. I’m still not sure what standing on the electric cord had to do with. Pure unadulterated quackery plus MLM. Their web site even has a flash presentation that goes so far as to link their technology with better health for victims of the Chernobyl disaster if only they would drink their i-H20 processed water. What is the process you ask? It seems to have something to do with a blinking LED on top of a water pitcher. I guess you can put an “i” in front of anything and make it sound reasonable these days
