So I overheard some murmurs at a party over the weekend about this “Power balance bracelet” thing that “really works”, but before I could chip in the party went another direction, and I let it slide… how folly of me… Getting into the office I started hearing similar claims from others all over the place. Couldn’t stop getting earfuls of how crazy stupid-fly this bracelet is… So here’s a heads-up skeptics: Someone is making a killing selling a bracelet that has a holographic sticker on it and claims to “correct your bodies frequencies” and other such nonsense. They do the classic “I can’t push you over if you’re wearing the bracelet” trick, known to be a placebo effect since forever…
Woo does generally seem to be a profitable business. What must that bracelet cost to make? couple of rand? Sometimes it’s enticing to think about launching a woo-brand of my own.
Reminds me of my Mother that spent about R16 000 way back then (around 1988 - moer of a lot of money back then) when I was 16 on some woo master that claimed that he could balance my emotions/hormonal/rebellious issues and inadequacies with some weird machine, I was strapped into this gadget weekly for about six weeks until the last session when I stuck bubblegum into some of the knobs and levers. After this episode my mother gave up on having my rebellion “cured” and left me for the Devil. ;D
Sounds good!
St0nes should be head of research since his dad has already established that elephants don’t go for mosquito hairnets. Quantum elephants might of course behave differently, but elephants generally come across well balanced; perhaps powerbalance bracelets would sell better among giraffes?
