Comments on: A little sip and you can join the Mile High Club and Solve the Credit Crunch http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2008/09/little-sip-and-you-can-join-mile-high.html Experiments and Thoughts on Quackery, Health Beliefs and Pseudoscience Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:47:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Persiflage http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2008/09/little-sip-and-you-can-join-mile-high.html#comment-6796 Persiflage Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:45:00 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2008/09/a-little-sip-and-you-can-join-the-mile-high-club-and-solve-the-credit-crunch.html#comment-6796 Nobody else has said it, so...<br/><br/>"Will nobody rid me of this turbulent treatment?!"<br/><br/>I thank you :) Nobody else has said it, so…

“Will nobody rid me of this turbulent treatment?!”

I thank you :)

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2008/09/little-sip-and-you-can-join-mile-high.html#comment-6745 Anonymous Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:15:00 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2008/09/a-little-sip-and-you-can-join-the-mile-high-club-and-solve-the-credit-crunch.html#comment-6745 Is this enrgised water crap for real? Is this enrgised water crap for real?

]]> By: John H http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2008/09/little-sip-and-you-can-join-mile-high.html#comment-6724 John H Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:58:00 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2008/09/a-little-sip-and-you-can-join-the-mile-high-club-and-solve-the-credit-crunch.html#comment-6724 As ‘intense turbulent treatment’ is clearly nothing to do with homeopathy maybe it works !<br/><br/>If so why is it not used throughout the third world for water purification or have the pharmas conspired to cover it up (as they always do - obviously, so that they can sell cures for cholera, malaria etc)<br/><br/>I suggest the producers run a trial whereby they crap in a bottle, subject it to intense turbulent treatment’ and drink it.<br/><br/>This might not be very scientific in terms of a proper trial but I suggest it would be a way of putting your money where your mouth is (literally as well as metaphorically). As ‘intense turbulent treatment’ is clearly nothing to do with homeopathy maybe it works !

If so why is it not used throughout the third world for water purification or have the pharmas conspired to cover it up (as they always do – obviously, so that they can sell cures for cholera, malaria etc)

I suggest the producers run a trial whereby they crap in a bottle, subject it to intense turbulent treatment’ and drink it.

This might not be very scientific in terms of a proper trial but I suggest it would be a way of putting your money where your mouth is (literally as well as metaphorically).

]]> By: pv http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2008/09/little-sip-and-you-can-join-mile-high.html#comment-6717 pv Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:57:00 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2008/09/a-little-sip-and-you-can-join-the-mile-high-club-and-solve-the-credit-crunch.html#comment-6717 UKdietitian said...<br/><br/><i> Waitrose have a brilliant dietitian as their company nutritionist called Moira Howie.<br/> She is a seriously ninja nutritionist and a dietitian well respected by dietitians who know her - including me<br/><br/> I bet marketing managed to slip this through under her radar. Think I'll email her.<br/><br/> http://www.waitrose.com/food/askanutritionist/index.aspx<br/><br/> Wednesday, 03 September, 2008</i><br/><br/>I doubt they consider it a dietary issue. <br/>Anyway, for those devoid of science qualifications but who do have an enquiring mind (such as moi), I think it's customary when confronted with things like Waitrose magic Mile High water to utter sotto voce that timeless useful phrase - complete bollox. UKdietitian said…

Waitrose have a brilliant dietitian as their company nutritionist called Moira Howie.
She is a seriously ninja nutritionist and a dietitian well respected by dietitians who know her – including me

I bet marketing managed to slip this through under her radar. Think I’ll email her.

http://www.waitrose.com/food/askanutritionist/index.aspx

Wednesday, 03 September, 2008

I doubt they consider it a dietary issue.
Anyway, for those devoid of science qualifications but who do have an enquiring mind (such as moi), I think it’s customary when confronted with things like Waitrose magic Mile High water to utter sotto voce that timeless useful phrase – complete bollox.

]]> By: Le Canard Noir http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2008/09/little-sip-and-you-can-join-mile-high.html#comment-6716 Le Canard Noir Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:37:00 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2008/09/a-little-sip-and-you-can-join-the-mile-high-club-and-solve-the-credit-crunch.html#comment-6716 You are right needhelp. The explanation that they give is in direct contradiction with established homeopathic theory and so it must be wrong. Oh hang on. It must be right. I am getting horribly confused. You are right needhelp. The explanation that they give is in direct contradiction with established homeopathic theory and so it must be wrong. Oh hang on. It must be right. I am getting horribly confused.

]]> By: needhelp http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2008/09/little-sip-and-you-can-join-mile-high.html#comment-6715 needhelp Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:15:00 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2008/09/a-little-sip-and-you-can-join-the-mile-high-club-and-solve-the-credit-crunch.html#comment-6715 This Energized Water stuff... it undergoes an ‘intense turbulent treatment’ so that it forgets about the harmful stuff it might once have contained. ‘Intense turbulent treatment’ sounds like ‘shaking’ to me, or as some might refer to it, ‘succussion’. No? This Energized Water stuff… it undergoes an ‘intense turbulent treatment’ so that it forgets about the harmful stuff it might once have contained. ‘Intense turbulent treatment’ sounds like ‘shaking’ to me, or as some might refer to it, ‘succussion’. No?

]]> By: Le Canard Noir http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2008/09/little-sip-and-you-can-join-mile-high.html#comment-6714 Le Canard Noir Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:45:00 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2008/09/a-little-sip-and-you-can-join-the-mile-high-club-and-solve-the-credit-crunch.html#comment-6714 if I ever write a book it will be more of a "how I left the rat race and moved to the south of France and opened a little pharmacie homeopathique and shagged juliette binoche" type book. Maybe call it "driving over canards" or "a year in binoche" or something. if I ever write a book it will be more of a “how I left the rat race and moved to the south of France and opened a little pharmacie homeopathique and shagged juliette binoche” type book. Maybe call it “driving over canards” or “a year in binoche” or something.

]]> By: peterd102 http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2008/09/little-sip-and-you-can-join-mile-high.html#comment-6713 peterd102 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:07:00 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2008/09/a-little-sip-and-you-can-join-the-mile-high-club-and-solve-the-credit-crunch.html#comment-6713 have you thought of writing a book yourself Andy. Quackometer - the medical Bullshitometer, considering the sales of Bens book you could be on to a lot of cash. have you thought of writing a book yourself Andy. Quackometer – the medical Bullshitometer, considering the sales of Bens book you could be on to a lot of cash.

]]> By: UKdietitian http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2008/09/little-sip-and-you-can-join-mile-high.html#comment-6711 UKdietitian Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:11:00 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2008/09/a-little-sip-and-you-can-join-the-mile-high-club-and-solve-the-credit-crunch.html#comment-6711 Waitrose have a brilliant dietitian as their company nutritionist called Moira Howie. <br/>She is a seriously ninja nutritionist and a dietitian well respected by dietitians who know her - including me<br/><br/>I bet marketing managed to slip this through under her radar. Think I'll email her. <br/><br/>http://www.waitrose.com/food/askanutritionist/index.aspx Waitrose have a brilliant dietitian as their company nutritionist called Moira Howie.
She is a seriously ninja nutritionist and a dietitian well respected by dietitians who know her – including me

I bet marketing managed to slip this through under her radar. Think I’ll email her.

http://www.waitrose.com/food/askanutritionist/index.aspx

]]> By: derek http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2008/09/little-sip-and-you-can-join-mile-high.html#comment-6710 derek Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:07:00 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2008/09/a-little-sip-and-you-can-join-the-mile-high-club-and-solve-the-credit-crunch.html#comment-6710 but you cant take liquids onto a plane anyway, but you cant take liquids onto a plane anyway,

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