Ethical dilemma of placebos. If they give relief...?
I'm fine with placebo's if people get relief.
The problem with this is that it validates the 5G hate.
Pulling apart a £339 anti-5G USB stick
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#72The most worrying thing I found about this article is the seriousness of the review - as if the pseudoscience is real and the review is checking if the fake device works against the fake science. This is very worrying it made it into the BBC.
I think the article makes a lot of fun about the product and is obviously described as a funny and expensive scam between the lines :
"So what's different between it and a virtually identical 'crystal' USB key available from various suppliers in Shenzhen, China, for around £5 per key?" asks Ken Munro, whose company, Pen Test Partners, specialises in taking apart consumer electronic products to spot security vulnerabilities.
And the answer appears to be a circular sticker.
"Now, we're not 5G quantum experts but said sticker looks remarkably like one available in sheets from stationery suppliers for less than a penny each," he says.
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#73If it makes people feel better, and gets people to stop being unreasonably unhappy about something harmless, who are we to ruin that for them?
I guess we could be opening ourselves up to a slippery slide, or some danger that people make unsafe decisions because of this, but I think this is relatively innocuous.
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#74If you think this is just bunk, and you'd like a laugh, read the FAQs on the website [1]... My favourite: >Does the device remove the EMF from the environment? If so can I use a meter to measure EMF? >>The 'electro magnetic meter' can only measure the intensity of radiation which is not changed by our technology nor does it change the quality of connection and speed of data transfer. Well, that's convenient, isn't it…
> Do people actually believe this nonsense? Yes. I have moved past thinking we need to protect people from this kind of thing. If they believe it, let them buy it. The only harm their ignorance is doing is to themselves. They might even get some kind of placebo reassurance from it.
> The only harm their ignorance is doing is to themselves.
Is it? People might hurt their kids etc by not vaccinating them. And if enough people believe this nonsense, they are very prone to voting for other idiots, which should have an effect on all of us.
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#75If it makes people feel better, and gets people to stop being unreasonably unhappy about something harmless, who are we to ruin that for them? I guess we could be opening ourselves up to a slippery slide, or some danger that people make unsafe decisions because of this, but I think this is relatively innocuous.
Well it's a £339 fraud, for one thing. If it were more honest about what the product was, it would be less illegal.
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#76If it makes people feel better, and gets people to stop being unreasonably unhappy about something harmless, who are we to ruin that for them? I guess we could be opening ourselves up to a slippery slide, or some danger that people make unsafe decisions because of this, but I think this is relatively innocuous.
If it cost $5, sure.
At over $400, it's a pretty hefty scam.
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#77Pfft this is already out of date. My usb stick with a sticker of a dolphin can block 6g.
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#78This item is based on no science and horribly overpriced, but cosmetically attractive and sneakily marketed. Shocking. They should diversify into premium Hifi. Edit.
>They should diversify into premium Hifi.
All they need to do is make that plug golden, and sell it for $1K.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Table salt, sand, and food-grade white pigment respectively. Also: Sorry you went through that decline at the end. :'(
> table salt, sand, and food-grade white pigment But it's often not in dangerous quantities, because homeopathy believes that the less of something is present somewhere it works better, and it's called "dynamization" or "potentization" by the producers, diluting the material sometimes to the point that in thousands of sold pills, counted together, there can't be more than one single molecule! The process then practic…
Beyond that, the stuff is often badly made and might accidentally have much larger amounts. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hundreds-of-babie...
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#80> [...] promises to protect your family from 5G, using ground-breaking quantum technology My intuitive guess would be that for the target audience "ground-breaking quantum technology" would cause even more problems for their family than 5G. Interesting.
Don't think so. Quantum is often used as a convenient explanation for why things work in those circles (at least from what i've seen). How does it protect me from evil radiation? It's quantum, you wouldn't understand.
If they're messing about with quantum, they really need to be licensed quantum mechanics. Not just anyone should be allowed to touch this stuff, you know... ask to see their certification! ;-)