Comments on: Tiny Magnets, Tiny Minds http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2007/03/tiny-magnets-tiny-minds.html Experiments and Thoughts on Quackery, Health Beliefs and Pseudoscience Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:52:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Le Canard Noir http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2007/03/tiny-magnets-tiny-minds.html#comment-4856 Le Canard Noir Sun, 08 Apr 2007 10:23:00 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2007/03/tiny-magnets-tiny-minds.html#comment-4856 Here it is...<br/><br/>http://www.oft.gov.uk/news/press/2007/6-07 Here it is…

http://www.oft.gov.uk/news/press/2007/6-07

]]> By: Guy http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2007/03/tiny-magnets-tiny-minds.html#comment-4854 Guy Sat, 07 Apr 2007 21:02:00 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2007/03/tiny-magnets-tiny-minds.html#comment-4854 See OFT Report 6/07 dated 15th January 2007. Mangopulse and their backers have been forced to tell the truth! See OFT Report 6/07 dated 15th January 2007. Mangopulse and their backers have been forced to tell the truth!

]]> By: Maggie http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2007/03/tiny-magnets-tiny-minds.html#comment-4842 Maggie Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:38:00 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2007/03/tiny-magnets-tiny-minds.html#comment-4842 This sounds very similar to a magnet thingy that was sold some years ago (it was certainly around when I was first diagnosed, so 1992-4 ish) that was supposed to "cure" ME/CFS. I'm sorry, I can't remember the name of it right now. I have half a feeling that it was also supposed to cure cancer, and that's how it got withdrawn. I think Dr Charles Shepherd (Med Adviser to the ME Association) was involved with getting it withdrawn under the law against selling things as cancer cures. <br/><br/>Don't know if you watch Dragon's Den (BBC2), there was a good one on there tonight of a woman looking for £60,000 to set up an online "sort of" counselling system based on NLP (she wasn't terribly clear exactly what it was she was trying to sell). It screamed quack quack quack to me, and I was very pleased to see the Dragons took that line too.<br/><br/>Best wishes from Liverpool This sounds very similar to a magnet thingy that was sold some years ago (it was certainly around when I was first diagnosed, so 1992-4 ish) that was supposed to “cure” ME/CFS. I’m sorry, I can’t remember the name of it right now. I have half a feeling that it was also supposed to cure cancer, and that’s how it got withdrawn. I think Dr Charles Shepherd (Med Adviser to the ME Association) was involved with getting it withdrawn under the law against selling things as cancer cures.

Don’t know if you watch Dragon’s Den (BBC2), there was a good one on there tonight of a woman looking for £60,000 to set up an online “sort of” counselling system based on NLP (she wasn’t terribly clear exactly what it was she was trying to sell). It screamed quack quack quack to me, and I was very pleased to see the Dragons took that line too.

Best wishes from Liverpool

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