If you think that a diet alone will improve your health without other lifestyle changes, you are too gullible to be allowed to shop.
You’re refering to the actualy Diet books that are NOT BOGUS. I’m talking about the books like Keven Trudeau who’s book are TOTAL BOGUS. Complete scam. Claims that his diet will actually cure Cancer.
Not buying the product is an important part of the plan, but it isn’t as effective as not buying the products AND not buying Popular Mechanics
And this is where you’re a hypocrite…You still support other companies that sell and advertise Bogus Products. the Consumer Protection Agency is a great idea on paper. But it’s a never ending job in stopping these bogus products. It would be far easier if instead of banning them to instead spend the money in educating the public. You shut one down 10 pop up in it’s place.
ike I said, It is kind of like throwing a pebble into a pond. It takes one to start, and if enough people do it, there IS an effect.
People have been throwing pebbles in the pond for HUNDREDS of years. I don’t see the effect.
[quote]“I can’t make a difference,” or “there is only one way to solve a problem and this isn’t it,” [/qutoe]
I NEVER SAID you can’t make a difference. I said the ONE method you promoted is NOT GOING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. I’m all for educating the public to these fraudulent products. I for one will NOT buy them and I’m a born skeptic. I will need something PROVEN to me before I’ll buy into it. Took me YEARS before I saw the benefit to using Synthetic oil.
Oh NO! Some judgmental reactionary in New Hampshire thinks I am a hypocrite! How can I live with myself!
If I had been aware of these fraudulent products, I would not have shopped there. Now that I know, I won’t. After all, it won’t kill me to have principles and live up to them. You should try it too. After all, someone has to set an example or the sheep will never follow.
How did I know that pebble in a pond example was too complicated for you? I can’t believe I was right!
By the way, Mike, how did you become such a skeptic? Who peed on your Wheaties?
To the best of my knowledge, Consumer Reports has never taken advertising. They do advertise some of their own products and services, but no outside advertising and they say they never have. Have you possibly confused Consumers Digest with Consumer Reports? Not the same, but I think Consumers Digest is not trying too hard to avoid the confusion . . . if you know what I mean.
Should I be insulted that you are calling me a liar? I would be if I cared what you think. Fortunately, there are plenty of ethical companies out there with which I can still conduct business.
Nope. I remember vividly all of the controversy that erupted when Consumer Reports made the decision to accept print advertising in its magazine. It was all over the news.
Jeremy–Again, while I agree with your overall philosophy, I have to tell you that you are wrong about Consumer Reports. That publication has NEVER accepted advertising, unless you count their ads for their own books.
Believe me, I should know about this topic since I have been a subscriber to CR since…I believe the year was 1972. As Ranck stated, you must be confusing Consumer Reports with Consumer Digest, a thoroughly inferior publication that thrives on ads from the products that it endorses.
“How many Diets have you seen or heard advertised that actually work???”
Not only are there a lot of these false claims, but there are a lot of infomercials that say you must use their tonic/diet supplement/pill, or whatever or you will fall prey to some disease. If we were to buy and use every theraputic thing we are told we have to be using, can you imagine how much stuff would be in our systems probably all together like that doing us much more harm than good, I would think?
It’s kind of ironic how the meaning of “quantum” has been skewed over the years. Actually promising “quantum level” increases would be quite accurate. A quantum is to energy what an atom is to matter, the smallest possible increment.
Yup, thats right, 50,000 miles on a gallon of water. About every 50,000 miles I change the coolant which takes about a gallon of water and a gallon of ethylene glycol.
My truck also needs about a gallon of gasoline every 24 miles, but based on the current fool’s logic claiming 100+ MPG from plug-in hybrids my claim of being able to drive 50,000 miles on a gallon of water is every bit as valid. In both cases we conveniently forget to add the other inputs.