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What are your favorite scams? - 1/23/2011 8:05:52 PM

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RML posted a pic of "5-hour Energy" which is how I got this notion.

If there are Zero net Calories, then the product does not supply energy. That's how energy in nutrition is measured, in Calories (or Kcal). There are an estimated 100 mg. of caffeine in it, which is about the same as a cup of coffee. It also has citicholine, which may have nootropic qualities. The estimated amount in the product is too low for any effect, however.

Vitamins do NOT contain or create energy. Neither do enzymes. They are catalysts in biochemical reactions, nothing more. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, but the quantity present in the product is insignificant.

I 86'd my cable some time ago; are they still showing the "Enzyte" adverts? THose were my favorite scam. They loaded so much symbolism into those ads that I couldn't help but ROFL.

Okey-dokey, your turn.

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RE: What are your favorite scams? - 1/23/2011 9:08:55 PM

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Maybe the advertising enhances the placebo effect? I've driven far and fast, through the night, on those little bottles of christian crank. I much prefer them to coffee for the job.

The Enzyte commercials were hilarious.

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RE: What are your favorite scams? - 1/23/2011 10:29:06 PM

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I was living in Utah when the claims of cold fusion came out.The experiments were not peer reviewed nor duplicated anywhere else, so the entire scientific community was trying to keep their objectivity while saying that there's ain't no way.

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RE: What are your favorite scams? - 1/24/2011 2:22:25 AM

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Yes, I recall quite a bit of anxiety among some of the engineers at Shell because they thought that they might shortly become unemployed. Reading the Cold Fusion article in Wikipedia, I was struck by the similarites between CF supporters and the GCC deniers.

Two more favorites of mine are Homeopathic "medicine" and magnets.

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RE: What are your favorite scams? - 1/24/2011 9:42:22 PM

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"energy drinks" don't provide energy but provide hormonal catalysts to get the body to burn the energy they have available faster.

This leads to the "crash" when they wear off as you have burned more energy than the body equilibrium would normally have expended before signalling you need a meal and rest.

Short term gain, but with a bigger price.

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