Incidentally, Crank.net is another site I make a point of stopping by every so often.

Lovely site isn’t it? Throw in the expression engine ala SEB and got a killer app that even Bill Gates would visit.

Les, by looking at your face, I can tell that you are not highly educated. Maybe graduated from a garbage college. I really think that you should try to learn more about it before making such negative comments. Don’t want and don’t need to argue with someone like you. I guess you are just jealous that other people can afford it but you don’t.

Aren’t highly educated people generaly more educated in their barbs?

Aren’t highly educated people generaly more educated in their barbs?

Uneducated people like to pretend that they’re educated, but the moment they open their mouths- BUSTED!

If that guy were real MIT, he’d insult Les by saying

“Dear Sir, I’m disappointed in your countenance. Maybe we can negotiate a happier expression?”

Behold the attack of the wishing machines!  Get this: flick a switch, pop a button, blink some lights and voila! In 77 days on the 7th month, your wish comes true! All the Gods and Djinns bow down from the heavens because you bought that $7999 spiffy gadget from 3Wishes R Us!

And wait, there’s more: if you order now, you get a FREE astral condom! Yesirreee! So the next time a demon fancies your power Stick, you can make
out in style… and with protection. Comes in two flavors: Karma and Merits.

So SHOP NOW AND SAVE:

You guys really crack me up!

But seriously, if magickmachines.com or ctbusters.quack has an 800-DIPSTICK number, I’ll pass it on to the FTC and the Better Business Bureau.

Problem is, like all scambags, they don’t have a Postal Address, Telephone number or even PO box.

Just a frikkin anonymous email.

It’s standard Mr. Moderator. If I were a crank or crackpot, I’d never leave my actual contact numbers.It’s like giving the handcuffs to the apprehending officer!

By the way, to the credit of ctbusters.com, they posted their contact details:

CTBusters.com, 176 North May Ave Monrovia, CA 91016 United States

By Email:

So perhaps ctbusters at least believes in the oil they’re selling.

It’s the scam magickmachines.com that’s hiding behind smoke and mirrors. Not a single email, phone or postal address on their site. Sounds like they’ll take your money and run! Your only means of contacting them is via the Buy Now From CCnow button or the blind contact form.

Nasty.

Girls girls girls. From the fuming, you folks most likey got suckered by magickmachines. Do I hear gnashing of teeth? Time to see your dentists!

Please do yourselves a favor and read this before buying off the web

Detecting Scams
Consumers at some time or the other would have fallen prey to a scam operator. The aim of most scams is to take money from an unsuspecting victim for goods or services there is no intention to supply. Scam operators utilize various approaches to carry out their fraudulent schemes: 
Via mail

Telephones

In-person

The Internet

Scams are usually disguised in the form of:

Some pyramids

Chain letters

Unknown charitable organizations

Get rich quick plans

Wonder cures for each and every ailment

Some overseas lotteries

Providing various ways to heal the depressed and broken-hearted.

Easy Ways To Spot A Scam

When you are asked to send money before getting all the necessary information about the product or service being advertised.

When money has to be sent to a post office box number.

When you are pressured into making a decision to participate quickly or else the “opportunity will be lost”.

When the printed material states that the scheme is legal.

When the schemes are described as wielding “big money” with “no risk”

N.B In many instances, if you enquire after you have sent money, especially overseas, it’s too late to obtain a refund.

What Can be Done to Avoid Scams?

Do not make an immediate decision if approached by an unfamiliar charity- get written information and do a background check first.

Check to ensure that your money is really going to help people in need.

Try not to give large amounts of cash- most charities will accept cheques.

Consult relatives, friends and co-workers for their opinions- do not respond to these ads in isolation as there is little way of knowing if they are legitimate

Avoid misleading advertisements

http://www.consumer.gov.tt/news/detectingscams.htm

ood news! I hear the ScalarWidgetHarmonizer company will start implementing a 1-800-SPANK-ME number and PO Box in Congo so all their scammed victims can send in postcards.

Start writing gentlemen!

Just came from another blog, the people at shamelessreviews.com are grinding a big axe on Teslar. They quoted this thread.

No one loves Teslar. :(

No one likes a scam. PERIOD

Check this out. Yet another hokey-dokey product

http://www.lifewave.com

And they’re claim:

Increase energy the safe, clinically-tested, natural way

LifeWave offers a completely new approach to improved performance.  Our revolutionary technology is changing the lives of athletes and active people everywhere.  Our Energy Enhancer patches are constructed from organic materials and that when placing the patches on the body produce both a heating and cooling effect.  Clinical studies have shown that this effect increases energy and the burning of fat.

The secret to staying ahead of the game
Clinical Results:  Increase in fat burning of over 20% in the first use in double blind placebo controlled studies.
World-class athletes and coaches have discovered that LifeWave Energy Enhancer Patches are the secret to keeping up with the challenges of their day-to-day lives. Men and women from all walks of life have also discovered that LifeWave Energy Enhancer Patches are the secret to keeping up the challenges of their day-to-day lives.

Clinical results:  Increase in energy and
strength endurance within minutes of use.

Double blind placebo controlled research studies have shown both the safety and effectiveness of LifeWave products.  LifeWave patches are constructed from organic materials and have been shown to increase energy and stamina through an elevation in fat burning.  These patches may be applied every other day for up to 12 hours at a time.

They just keep crawling out the woodwork!

shamelessreviews grinding a big axe on Teslar.

They teared away at Q-Ray as well. Anothe pet peeve of mine.

I can’t imagine how they’re still surviving, but the FTC is breathing down their necks.

I have ms and have worn the Teslar for a year with no significant falls or problems. Now the battery is dead( and sent to be replaced) I have fallen twice and feel like crap. Maybe it is mind over matter, but it works for me and the watch looks terrific.

Sounds like confirmation bias to me. Doesn’t prove much other than you’re gullible.

Sounds like Teslar sent in an emissary.

Would’t you agree, Les?

An ass can always spot one of his own. Shut up about being an emmissary- I just said it works for me.

Meow. 

Why do scammers or defenders of scammers defend their position with ad hominem attacks?

Googled and got here.
A relative of mine got this teslar bracelet thingy (ie. the chips without the watch), also from Philip Stein.

I’ll observe him for a couple of months to see what happens.

BTW, what’s with the “r” in Teslar when they name it after Nikola Tesla?

I wonder if the chips can protect someone in a Tesla coil accident.

Yes, it’s based on Nikola tesla’s reputation. But not on Tesla’s technology.

It’s that method of gaining credibility by associating with a good name. False logic.

Did you know it was Tesla, not edison who discovered alternating current? Fact is, Tesla discovered more science theory that’s applicable from microprocessors to photonic phenomenon than his contemporaries did.

Les, I’m having trouble connecting with my paid proxy servers from HongKong, Singapore, Philippines and Malaysia. Keep getting booted.

Is Asia blacklisted? I usually need to direct connect from US

It’s possible SA, drop me an email with the IP addresses and I’ll double check. When the site starts getting hammered from certain locations I end up banning whole IP ranges.

I’m such an IDIOT! Here I am paying nonymizer a hefty fee for their poor connection, when there’s a free browser that automatically encrypts and anonymizes my trails.

Heard of the Torpark Browser? (torpark.nfshost.com)

I’m using it now and it’s easy to post.

Will ditch my paid service.

i have scanned through the thread looking for some scientific thought about teslar watches other than i have followed the studies or i understand the theories.

the only postings that gave me anything to think about were ragmans:

The Teslar watch could “work” by destructive interference.  This requires the generation of an EMF of the SAME freq as the harmful EMF, but with 180 deg phase shift where the two waves meet.  It would cancel the waves out at the point of intersection, but does not destroy the particle energy…

and the someone’s suggestion for an unbiased double blind test.

otherwise, i feel i am just looking at a bunch of unsubstantiated opinions and insults.

You’re right, Tawny. You’ll also note that I’ve asked repeatedly for any of the supporters to provide any evidence they have for their claims and they’ve yet to provide a single smidgen.

The watch makers are the ones making the ridiculous claims so the burden of proof is on them, but search their site and you’ll find nothing supportive.

Yes, Tawny, destructive interference can cancel out waveform transmissions; the Bose headphones do something quite similar with sound.  Bose headphones can cancel sound that would enter the auditory canal because they cover the entrance to it.  The orientation of the original signal and its cancelling interference is the same.

But EMF comes at us from all directions; the watch would have to have a sphere of emitters around the body.  Each of those emitters would have to be capable of transmitting in the same orientation as the source, over a huge range of frequencies.  As designers of transmitting antennas could tell you, this is not a simple thing.

Furthermore, the watch is in a metal case with little openings in the back.  It could easily increase the amplitude of any EMF to which it might accidentally be harmonized. 

I could much more easily believe in the well-documented and proven “placebo effect” that has been a feature of every quack nostrum since snake-oil.

This thread kept popping up at the scam forum that I consult before buying anything. Nice work. you guys really know how to expose hoaxters and con men!

One thing I noticed in common with shams like magickmachines.com , teslar.com, qray.com and other snakeoil cranks is they like to sell their stuff as anti-EMF talismans.

Is there any scientific evidence that such technology really works? Can we shield the radiation of a phone with a dinky Qlink pendant or a scammy magickmachines chiomax??

As far as I’m aware of there’s no evidence any of these craptastic products does anything at all. Of course it doesn’t help that there’s little evidence that EMF radiation is particularly harmful.