{"id":1832,"date":"2011-05-19T13:02:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T12:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/how-applied-kinesiology-can-be-used-to-justify-any-quack-treatment.html"},"modified":"2011-05-19T13:02:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T12:02:04","slug":"how-applied-kinesiology-can-be-used-to-justify-any-quack-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/how-applied-kinesiology-can-be-used-to-justify-any-quack-treatment.html","title":{"rendered":"How Applied Kinesiology Can be Used to Justify any Quack Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"image\"<\/a>There is little industry of companies that like to sell devices and remedies to protect you from the evils of mobile phones and Wifi. Given that there is no compelling evidence that there is a significant and meaningful threat from such technologies, the major challenge of these outfits is to convince the public that they need their services.<\/p>\n

This problem will no doubt be helped by last week\u2019s decision<\/a> by the Council of Europe into accepting the conclusions of a small bunch of pseudoscientists<\/a> and the discredited and unbalanced Bioinitiative Report that we must protect children from the threat of electromagnetic radiation.<\/p>\n

One company that will hope to thrive from such nonsense is called Phoneshield<\/a>. It sells little buttons containing magic crystals that you stick on your phone or Wifi to protect you from the evil rays.<\/p>\n

Phoneshield make many outrageous claims,<\/p>\n

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With so much electromagnetism at home and the office from computers, monitors, laptops, cordless phones and every other electrical device it’s no wonder we feel so drained and headachy, can’t concentrate, feel confused and generally under the weather.<\/p>\n

We need natural quartz wi-fi Shields <\/strong>to reduce our exposure to electromagnetism – that’s better<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Even if it is discovered that mobile phones and Wifi do pose meaningful risks, the idea that a quartz crystal stuck to your phone can reduce your risk is simply absurd.<\/p>\n

However, I have a feeling that after writing this article, Phoneshield will suffer a thorough fishbarrelling<\/a> from multiple sources that may make their ability to trade much harder.<\/p>\n

But while they exist, let\u2019s enjoy them a little further.<\/p>\n

The company say they make \u2018no outrageous claims\u2019<\/a>.  But they do claim that it is a FACT that the magic crystal buttons can \u201creduce fatigue, poor concentration and headaches\u2019. If, let\u2019s say, Phoneshield did have to provide evidence to substantiate their claims to some authority, how would they do it?<\/p>\n

On their web site they provide several ways. The first is to use the authority of \u2018eminent scientist\u2019 Mr Roger Coghill. You may remember Coghill from a few years back when he hit the headlines proclaiming that suicide rates were in high in Bridgend due to the presence of phone masts. This quickly proved to be nonsense and Roger Coghill<\/a>\u2019s qualifications were not as \u2018eminent\u2019 as we were led to believe. In fact, it turns out that Coghill was also in the business of selling questionable \u2018solutions\u2019 to the \u2018problems\u2019 caused by radio waves.<\/p>\n

However the best evidence for Phoneshield would appear to come from the diagnostic technique of Kinesiology. <\/p>\n

You have to watch this evidence for yourself. Here it is. But be warned, do not watch with hot liquids in your mouth as you may ruin your expensive electronic equipment.<\/p>\n