Scams Galore

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Scams Galore

 October 20… "Nobodyever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the Americanpublic," H.L. Mencken, the American journalist,famously said years ago. And so it continues today, not only in theU.S. but most everywhere else. The continuing EMF controversy,stimulated bythree new books —Sam Milham's Dirty Electricity,Devra Davis's Disconnect andAnn Gittleman's Zapped,— has fueled the demand for quick fixes. (None of these authorsrecommends them.) Just about every day, someone contacts us, pitching anew product or, on the consumer side,asking if they do any good.

The gizmos promising protection includebracelets,pendants and headbands.Two of the best-known are BioPro and Q-Link, which have been around for years. They are really no different from all the others. That's to say, they don't work.The most charitable way to describe them would be as placebos, or more appropriately, very expensive placebos.

Last week, for instance, a Canadian outfit called MicroAlpha wrote to us about itsNeutralizer,which if installed "before the first frost" would stop"bad electric energy" from rising and stunting plants and trees. Itpromises that a vineyard, once neutralized, would yield grapes as goodas those in France and Italy. The Neutralizer is alsoavailable as a "Peace Ball,"designed to be worn as a necklace. It's yours for C$100. Or you can gettheball in an industrial strength version(600 times stronger) for C$450. In line with the old saying, never givea sucker an even break, MicroAlpha recommends that you go for thestrongest one you can afford, that is, the most expensive.And for those who have money to burn, there is the mightyDiamond Edition Peace Ball, yours for up to C$8,000. While you're at it,you might want to protect your pets with the"Happy Ball" (C$165-$650).

We should acknowledge that there isone paper in the peer-reviewed literature that claims that these things might actually do something. In 2002, a group led by Rodney Croft,currently the head of the Australian Centre for RF Bioeffects Research, reportedin the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine that the Q-Link and its Sympathetic Resonance Technology did in fact "have an affect [sic] onneural function." Croft's paper was sponsoredby Clarus Products International, which makes and markets the Q-Link. Croft is now well known as one of Australia's leading defenders of cell phone safety.

Alasdair Philips, the director of Powerwatch, a U.K. advocacy group, tooka look at how Croft had carried out his experiment and determined that the results were"virtually worthless." Philips also took the Q-Link "Ally" apart andfound that it had been put together "in such a way as it could never, even vaguely, work."

What sets BioPro apart is that its business model is not too different from a pyramid scheme,or to use a more genteel term, it's a multilevel marketing company. You too can get in on the scam and make money by becoming aBioPro Independent Consultant and selling these worthless gadgets and recruiting others to do so too.

Don Bauder provides an inside look at how such companies work in arecent article for the San Diego Reader. One take-home lesson isthat BioPro and its latest incarnation, Gia Wellness,look for any possible way to make you part with your money.There is nothing special aboutpreying on people's fears of EMFs. Gia Wellness also sells "inspirednutrition" products. The most amazing (and appalling) of these is theGia Smart Card™.It looksvery much like a credit card, but, apparently, has some very specialproperties: It "is designed to transfer its vital energy onto any foodor beverage you consume, to release its natural energetic potential,"according to Gia.

Now that BioPro has lost whatever cachet it once had, Gia is marketing another cell phone protection device, the Cell Guard.You can buy a pack of four for $147.50.Cell Guard looks a lot like BioPro and there is every reason to believe that it is just as effective.

For a time, the most notable proponent of BioPro Technology was George Carlo, the sometime epidemiologist,lawyer and entrepreneur. They formed a "Strategic Alliance" about five years ago.In a videoarchived on YouTube, Carlo describes this alliance as a way to fulfillhis "moral and ethical obligation to get [BioPro] in the hands ofthousandsand thousands of people as soon as [possible]."In 2008, however, the relationship soured and Carlo confessed thatBioPro is nothing but quackery. This was one of "my most regrettableprofessional mistakes," he said.That's saying quite a lot given that in the 1990s he ran a $25 millionscam, known as Wireless Technology Research (WTR) on behalf of the cellphone industry trade group,CTIA. Carlo and CTIAhad promised a research program on the health effects of cell phoneradiation but delivered practically nothing,except to show, yet again, that H.L. Mencken knew what he was talkingabout.
 




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> Two of the best-known are BioPro and Q-Link, which have been
> around for years. They are really no different from all the others.
> That's to say, they don't work.

I don't know why you post things like this, Shivani.  Haven't you
seen enough positive reports on these things here to realize that
SOME of these "gizmos" DO work for SOME people?  And that there
is NO placebo effect going on?

But no matter -- every time you post something like this, I will
immediately post something to the contrary.  :-)

Marc

Yeah,

the article posted by Shivany is of the same quality when so many *scientists* claim that electrosensitivity cannot exist, because they do not understand the working mechanism.

The working of gizmo's cannot be understand by taking them apart and looking inside.

The working of gizmo's can be proven when measuring on electrosensitives directly.
(Measuring on normal *healthy* persons does not work because they have nothing in theit body that can react to electrosmog.)
But electrosensitives do react when exposed to elektrosmog, and those reactions can be measured.
And the differences between with and without a gizmo are very clear, as I have published earlier.

In the Netherlands, two schools were treated with *zero point energy*.
The quality of the schools became from *bad* to *good*.
The children became more calm, studied better, and where there were 20 reports of bad behaviour before, now there were only 3 at a certain timer lapse.

It is not because hardlined techies do not understand the working, that the working does not exists.

Many years ago, the techies at Siemens, the manufacturor of DECT phones, thought that nobody could measure the signals from their phones, till Endotronic launched their Digitmeter detector.

Greetings,
Charles Claessens
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  > Two of the best-known are BioPro and Q-Link, which have been
  > around for years. They are really no different from all the others.
  > That's to say, they don't work.

  I don't know why you post things like this, Shivani.  Haven't you
  seen enough positive reports on these things here to realize that
  SOME of these "gizmos" DO work for SOME people?  And that there
  is NO placebo effect going on?

  But no matter -- every time you post something like this, I will
  immediately post something to the contrary.  :-)

  Marc


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I agree with that 100%. I thought I lost my Q-link at the gym and was frantically running around like crazy looking for it. Asking everyone if they had seen it. I did find it to my relief. It does make a difference to me, not an end-all, cure-ll, but it certainly helps.

Cheryl

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      Well I lost my Q Link & I am feeling a difference! It's not that you see a amazing difference with it on. It's subtle. But ...... you do feel the additional burden when it is gone! Loni



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From: Marc Martin <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: [eSens] Scams Galore

To: [hidden email]

Date: Tuesday, December 21, 2010, 7:56 PM



 



> Two of the best-known are BioPro and Q-Link, which have been

> around for years. They are really no different from all the others.

> That's to say, they don't work.



I don't know why you post things like this, Shivani. Haven't you

seen enough positive reports on these things here to realize that

SOME of these "gizmos" DO work for SOME people? And that there

is NO placebo effect going on?



But no matter -- every time you post something like this, I will

immediately post something to the contrary. :-)



Marc



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Hi Cheryl,
 
I'm debating on getting another one but they are so expensive. The thing is so tiny! Loni

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I agree with that 100%. I thought I lost my Q-link at the gym and was frantically running around like crazy looking for it. Asking everyone if they had seen it. I did find it to my relief. It does make a difference to me, not an end-all, cure-ll, but it certainly helps.

Cheryl

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From: Loni <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [eSens] Scams Galore
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Date: Saturday, December 25, 2010, 8:32 PM

 

Well I lost my Q Link & I am feeling a difference! It's not that you see a amazing difference with it on. It's subtle. But ...... you do feel the additional burden when it is gone! Loni

--- On Tue, 12/21/10, Marc Martin <[hidden email]> wrote:

From: Marc Martin <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: [eSens] Scams Galore

To: [hidden email]

Date: Tuesday, December 21, 2010, 7:56 PM

 

> Two of the best-known are BioPro and Q-Link, which have been

> around for years. They are really no different from all the others.

> That's to say, they don't work.

I don't know why you post things like this, Shivani. Haven't you

seen enough positive reports on these things here to realize that

SOME of these "gizmos" DO work for SOME people? And that there

is NO placebo effect going on?

But no matter -- every time you post something like this, I will

immediately post something to the contrary. :-)

Marc

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Hi Loni,

Have you tried ebay? I noticed when I checked there last they were still a little high but less expensive than directly from the company itself. I think that proves they must be helping people or they wouldn't get such a good price on ebay. Also you could try asking for one on one of the free recycle groups that yahoo has if there if one near you or you could offer to pay for the postage since they are so small to mail. Let us know how it goes!
Good luck with this.

Cheryl

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      Hi Cheryl,

 

I'm debating on getting another one but they are so expensive. The thing is so tiny! Loni



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From: Cheryl Griffing <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: [eSens] Scams Galore

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Date: Saturday, December 25, 2010, 10:21 PM



 



I agree with that 100%. I thought I lost my Q-link at the gym and was frantically running around like crazy looking for it. Asking everyone if they had seen it. I did find it to my relief. It does make a difference to me, not an end-all, cure-ll, but it certainly helps.



Cheryl



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From: Loni <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: [eSens] Scams Galore

To: [hidden email]

Date: Saturday, December 25, 2010, 8:32 PM



 



Well I lost my Q Link & I am feeling a difference! It's not that you see a amazing difference with it on. It's subtle. But ...... you do feel the additional burden when it is gone! Loni



--- On Tue, 12/21/10, Marc Martin <[hidden email]> wrote:



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Subject: Re: [eSens] Scams Galore



To: [hidden email]



Date: Tuesday, December 21, 2010, 7:56 PM



 



> Two of the best-known are BioPro and Q-Link, which have been



> around for years. They are really no different from all the others.



> That's to say, they don't work.



I don't know why you post things like this, Shivani. Haven't you



seen enough positive reports on these things here to realize that



SOME of these "gizmos" DO work for SOME people? And that there



is NO placebo effect going on?



But no matter -- every time you post something like this, I will



immediately post something to the contrary. :-)



Marc



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