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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
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 Posted - 07/04/2009 : 16:37:37
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Marketplace, a consumer affairs program on the CBC, aired the following this evening, highlighting yet another fraudulent 'medical' miracle device, the EPFX.
It runs about 22 minutes, and is well worth it.
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Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
Baculum's page: http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=3947338590 |
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Zebra
Skeptic Friend
USA
354 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2009 : 23:30:38 [Permalink]
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The comments below the video are interesting - several who call it one-sided, are certain they or others have been helped, and/or claim it works via quantum biofeedback or some other such made-up term which scientists will (it's claimed) eventually realize is The Answer to all problems.
This whole thing looked familiar. Google helped me remember that I'd read the Seattle Times' expose on the machine & the guy behind it, back in 2007.
This blogspot page isn't very active, but has a number of links pertinent to this device & its "inventor", and also to the placebo effect in general.
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I think, you know, freedom means freedom for everyone* -Dick Cheney
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2009 : 03:45:12 [Permalink]
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Another pile of homeopathic crap. Here's Bad Science's take on it, replete with video. We've all come to accept that the hypochondriac pages are somehow exempt from the transaction constraints of “cash for précised true facts” in the newsagents. So you will be unsurprised to hear that several intolerances were diagnosed with the Quantum QXCI machine, each requiring extensive treatment. And not just some healthy fruit and veg. No: only an idiot would pay £150 to be told to eat more fruit and veg. There were also 120 pills, of varying colour and size.
What is the mysterious QXCI machine? Sadly the Telegraph seem to have kept the most interesting details from us, for this is no less than the Quantum Xrroid Consciousness Interface, “the most advanced medical assessment and therapy device in the world today” according to the distributors. It loops all 200 trillion human cells within a 55-channel biofeedback system to gather bioenergetic data at nano-second speeds, creating optimal wellness. It is covered in lights and switches, with special sciencey connectors like the printer ports on an old computer, and it looks like the equipment on an intensive care unit.
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Pity the hypochondriac, for he shall never be robust. Even though he spends all of his wealth to that end, his fate will ever be the vulture's repast.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2009 : 06:34:25 [Permalink]
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That was a heck of a good job of investigative TV journalism, something we don't see much of anymore in the US. Health Canada needs to respond by banning this device from Canadian shores.
I wouldn't mind nearly as much if this quack nostrum device were being peddled exclusively to hypochondriacs. It's that it is being used on people with potentially terminal diseases that metaphorically kills me -- and literally kills them.
Bill Nelson and his crew of creeps need to be rounded up, thrown in the slammer, and tried for homicide.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2009 : 11:25:00 [Permalink]
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And the man has his own theme song!
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2009 : 21:43:17 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Ricky
Anyone else think that it was Sylvia Brown?
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Yeah. Were I a cross-dresser, that's exactly the look I'd be trying for.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Excellent exposé of quackery
