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I'm guessing some emails are flying as we type.....
EDIT; seems STW has made up its mind, but given that I have espoused the feasibility of traditional Chinese medicine more than once on this forum, I feel honour bound to add that there are more things in Heaven and Earth, etc, etc.
there are indeed more things in heaven and earth... etc.
but these band-things are total bunkum. even worse than horoscopes - at least you get those for free.
I feel honour bound to add that there are more things in Heaven and Earth, etc, etc.
You are quite right there are but the universe is such a wonderful place that there is no need to make stuff up, it's remarkable enough as it is.
When it comes to this sort of guff though, those that produce it and sell it must come up with proof that it actually works. Which they haven't. In fact I'd be surprised if they even tested it.
* puts hand up and quietly whispers " I love mine" *
try one of these:
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i hear they're ace...
i've got one on my desk, you can have it for £25 posted, yes i'll accept paypal.
The distressing truth is that placebos do work. A real drug in a clinical trial has got to prove that it works better than a placebo, not better than nothing. My LBS stocks them, so I asked when the lucky rabbit's feet were being stocked. The reply was that the wild rabbit that visited their garden just died of myxomatosis, and as it had four feet, they couldn't be [i]that[/i] lucky! 😆
Not sure if this link has been posted already, but I thought it quite interesting:
http://www.cyclingtipsblog.com/2010/11/powerbalance-band-does-it-work/
Placebos work very well - for the right kind of people.
Billions of people also beleive in God, Allah and the power of homepathic water. They tell us it benefits them, so why not Powerbands?
Sadly you really need mis-directed belief to pedal anything like this (snake oil, religion etc). That would rule me out on nearly every level, otherwise it's a nice little earner.
not a huge shock that crc are stocking them....i cant see them that bothered about opinion on here or anywhere else really..theyre the tescos of the bike trade.interesting if you get a response from your complaint.
interesting thread on bikebiz about powerbands....and an ansa from the uk bike trade supplier. http://www.bikebiz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17610
100!
If I can have one with a thundercats hologram on it I'd happily give it a go
Princess Leia with the Death Star plans for me!
Boots sell homeopathic remedies and we probably all still buy stuff from them. Can't see much difference, tbh.
good point, well put.
what would be best is if you were feeling good and happy to be on the bike it could be a hologram of He mans face, putting out good radiowave thingys. but then right, if you saw another cyclist you wanted to dish out some hurt too, you could swivel the hologram and Skelotors face could appear and it would start outputting fearsome radiowaves to make you go superfast, can they do that, can they, can they???
Yeah I don't give a damn who sells them, loads of the bike industry is bullshit, this is just more obvious. CRC is cheapest, has free delivery and easy returns and normally has loads of what i want in stock. I'm still going there power balance bands or not. If people are dumb enough to buy them then thats fine by me. If you were going to ban these things then you might as well ban any other "faith" based products.
warton - Member
"but then right, if you saw another cyclist you wanted to dish out some hurt too, you could swivel the hologram and Skelotors face could appear and it would start outputting fearsome radiowaves to make you go superfast"
This thread's been making me think of Supernaturals, but probably nobody else remembers those because they were rubbish. Is it a ghost, is it a man? Aaaargh! It's a hologram.
NW- i remember Supernaturals, had quite the collection!
Were you into Visionaries too?
I'd like to have some power-ballads around my wrist......
DrP
From their website:
COUNTERFEIT - IMPORTANTUPDATE 21 NOVEMBER 2010 – PLEASE BE AWARE THAT FOLLOWING WEBSITES ARE SELLING COUNTERFEIT POWER BALANCE PRODUCT. DO NOT PURCHASE FROM THEM AS THE PRODUCTS DO NOT WORK.
And why would that be reason not to buy one? 😆
Hmm, swear filter doesn't work (I've tried)...
what powerband as a c**k ring ?
mountaincarrot - it's not just those who believe in religion or spiritual forces that respond to the placebo effect, ben goldacre often refers to* a test where patients at an NHS hospital were prescribed sugar pills. the doctors said 'here's a pill, it's made out of sugar and a bit of water and nothing else' and a statistically viable percentage said that they thought the treatment worked - because a doctor told them it was to treat the condition they had.
We are all susceptible to powers of suggestion or peer/elder pressure because it's part of the human learning process.
*apologies for not finding the link it's late and I can't be arsed, it's on the badscience website somewhere...
what the.... I missed all this, and now I feel inadeqwut 🙁 boo, can I have a bit of plastic to make me feel better about it?