Comments on: Trust Me – Evidence is Coming

By: Dubious

Dubious — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:02:18 +0000

Thank you for an excellent post Doctor. I truly enjoy posts like these, where you thoroughly examine dubious claims and highlight where the BS hides, which i honestly find hard sometimes.

By: Jared Olsen

Jared Olsen — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:27:25 +0000

That first paragraph is an excellent distillation of the whole sCAM paradigm. My only concern here Steve,
is that these a#*holes only need to read this blog to see where they are going wrong, and then create the perfect snake-oil.

By: HHC

HHC — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:20:55 +0000

ASEAs customers might like drinking mouthfuls of Dead Sea water for their next feat.

By: Davdoodles

Davdoodles — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:33:56 +0000

Pfft!

I have no proof whatsoever that MY brine tonic fixes THREE hundred things that ails ya.

So, my brackish water is 50% more awesome that ASEA’s.
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By: Sanclus

Sanclus — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:33:54 +0000

It is interesting how the same tired and tried formula continues to work through time. What is even more interesting to me is how people will grab onto the fantastic as truth while simultaneously dismissing facts and evidence that argue against the fantastic. The more troubling fact to me is the high percentage of my friends and family who are so easily swayed by these snake oil salesmen and other people who spout nonsense about vaccines and homeopathy. It is tough to have a conversation with anybody these days without having to discuss some such nonsense. Of course, the believers are never thrilled when facts are presented to them and they often get angry. Even though I never attack anybody personally for their beliefs, most tend to take logical arguments about fact vs. fantasy very personally. It’s like living between a rock and a hard place every day.

Daniel Brennan
Pelham Bay, Bronx, NY.

By: tmac57

tmac57 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:08:09 +0000

Couldn’t the ASEA users be considered a kind of skeptic? After all,they are taking their magic water with a grain of salt.

By: locutusbrg

locutusbrg — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:14:07 +0000

My favorite part is “I did my research to prove it as a placebo hoax.”. Yes that must have been an extensive review of available research. All of five minutes, it is very hard to find nothing. I am not knocking non US university but I couldn’t find a BS.c in micro except in india? In the US it is more commonly a BA in Micro.

By: Karl Withakay

Karl Withakay — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:03:19 +0000

“The company could then only market to that one indication, but people and practitioners would be free to use it off label for any indication”

Now, at least in the second circuit, they apparently could market it for any lawful use that they want to regardless of what condition it was approved for.

By: Skeptico

Skeptico — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:18:18 +0000

Prophets are usually seen only by those who start the companies

Presumably they foresee the success of the business?

By: BobbyG

BobbyG — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:18:40 +0000

‘The “I was a skeptic, but now I believe” line’

is posted by people who are known as “concern trolls.”