Re: Magic file copying snakeoil
Reply #23 – 2016-08-25 15:06:21
>"many" out there Head-fi has a history of banning people who are rational. That can't possibly help the ratio. My bad for posting that whilst nodding off in front of the PC when it was past bed time. All this blatant snake oil peddling reminds me of program shown on BBC2 this week, delving into the happy-go-lucky world of so called "clean diets": Every time any miraculous bloggers', vloggers' or other similarly unqualified person's boisterous claim were put through their paces by either a dietitian or nutritionist, they were instantaneously deemed as nothing more than BS. With even one or two founders of some of those cults diets being currently either imprisoned or facing serious charges or professing medicine without a degree. I guess when it comes to charlatanism there will aways be three sides to each story: - the charlatans themselves, who either have overt financial interest into divulging said bad science or somehow hint at its benefits expecting this way, to create a trend; - science-abiding folks , who prefer to stick to good old empirical science - either by educating themselves or just heeding to science per se, as defended by previous researches; - the suckers , who will believe at anything that has a mysterious aura to them - the more fantastic it is, the more effective it probably is and therefore, the more expensive it must be.