Homeopathic mosquito repellent

JoeBentley said:
In the US at least Woo Slingers like the Homeopaths have become absolute masters at talking all around what their product does. They've learned they can usually stay safe by wording their claims so vaguely as to be impossible to disprove such as "Our product will make you feel energetic-ified!" or some other such nice sounding but empty nonsense or by slapping some microscopic ass covering "This product has not be proven by the FDA to do diddly squat" notice.
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Beerina said:
Well where's the geneal-purpose fraud department then? :(
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In the US homeopathic medicines have a free pass, legally speaking. The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 included wording that specifically exempted homeopathy from virtually all regulation involving safety and efficacy testing. There was a Senator who was a homeopath who insisted on the language and the idiotic loophole (airplane hangar door?) was never closed.

Oddly, homeopathic drugs are actually required to list something that they treat, rather than the squirmy "boosts your immune system" crap that you see on other stuff, they just don't have to prove that they work. They also aren't tested for safety, because the government (even the NCAM, whirling toilet full of money that it is) recognizes that there is no danger in taking this garbage.
 
Speaking of poison ivy, I believe there is a homeopathic ivy stuff made with it. I bet it works too. All you have to do is take it and then avoid contact with certain toxic plants.
 
bruto said:
Speaking of poison ivy, I believe there is a homeopathic ivy stuff made with it. I bet it works too. All you have to do is take it and then avoid contact with certain toxic plants.
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I think that also comes in a cream and nasal spray ?? 3 easy payments of $6.65 plus shipping and handling.
 
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rustypouch said:
A 'clinic' in my town just introduced this product.

Homeopathic mosquito repellent, in pill form.

I just don't know what to say...
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I live in this town too. I see that they claim on their website that "people are lining up out the door" to get their hands on this crap. Funny thing is, this is the first time that I've ever heard of it. Something this popular certainly should have made our local evening newscast, especially on a slow news day. Maybe I'll try a completely non-scientific test on it on our May long weekend camping trip. Maybe I'll order up a couple of Shoo!tags while I'm at it. shootag.com. Maybe someone can do the linky thing for me since I don't have enough posts yet.
 
Battman said:
I live in this town too. I see that they claim on their website that "people are lining up out the door" to get their hands on this crap. Funny thing is, this is the first time that I've ever heard of it. Something this popular certainly should have made our local evening newscast, especially on a slow news day. Maybe I'll try a completely non-scientific test on it on our May long weekend camping trip. Maybe I'll order up a couple of Shoo!tags while I'm at it. shootag.com. Maybe someone can do the linky thing for me since I don't have enough posts yet.
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http://shootag.com

According to our research, each insect is repelled by a specific frequency— which explains why some packages contain more than one tag. We encode the frequency into a magnetic strip on the shoo!TAG®. (Yes, it’s the same type of strip used on your credit or debit card, and no we cannot add shoo!TAG® to your Visa card.) The product works because the natural energy field created by an animal or person expands the specific frequency, which creates a barrier from insects.
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Natural energy field? Yeesh.
 
Madalch said:
http://shootag.com



Natural energy field? Yeesh.
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Wow. So if I understand the "technology" here, you have a card with a magnetic strip, on which a specific frequency is encoded. How that frequency is made independent of swipe speed remains presumably a trade secret. And your natural energy field plays this frequency off the strip, to repel insects. So my question would be, assuming we briefly visit planet X where such nonsense is possible in the first place, why not encode a sweep frequency on the strip, and repel all the insects at once? Why not just hang an old audio cassette around your neck. I have a nice old cassette of Cesar Franck's Grand Piece Symphonique on the organ that ought to cover just about everything from no-see-ums to june bugs and would probably work on lobsters and nizzards too.
 
Careyp74 said:
So the laws of similar. I guess they took a mosquito and diluted it to thousandths of a part per million?
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No, it would have to be people. People attract mosquitoes, so a homepathic dilution of people would repel them. Someone should check the missing persons files.

IXP
 
Bat scent would be a better mosquito deterrent.
Wear a bat under each arm after checking that they're not vampire bats :)
 
bruto said:
Wow. So if I understand the "technology" here, you have a card with a magnetic strip, on which a specific frequency is encoded. How that frequency is made independent of swipe speed remains presumably a trade secret. And your natural energy field plays this frequency off the strip, to repel insects. So my question would be, assuming we briefly visit planet X where such nonsense is possible in the first place, why not encode a sweep frequency on the strip, and repel all the insects at once? Why not just hang an old audio cassette around your neck. I have a nice old cassette of Cesar Franck's Grand Piece Symphonique on the organ that ought to cover just about everything from no-see-ums to june bugs and would probably work on lobsters and nizzards too.
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Yeah, that about sums it up in a nut shell. "Reverend" Anaglyph over at Tetherd Cow Ahead (tetherdcow.com) does a great job of ripping these things to shreads.
Check it out here: http://www.tetherdcow.com/?p=8304
 
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There really is not alot you can do with those pesky little guys. Homeopathic measures would include removing tall grasses, maybe installing a bat box , removing standing water in objects and on your property, that sort of thing. Save your money as there is no quick or instant cure. It is, after all, simply mother nature ?
 
AttorneyTom said:
There really is not alot you can do with those pesky little guys. Homeopathic measures would include removing tall grasses, maybe installing a bat box , removing standing water in objects and on your property, that sort of thing. Save your money as there is no quick or instant cure. It is, after all, simply mother nature ?
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All of that and a can of Deep Woods Off. Unfortunately, you need to make sure that all of your neighbours are doing the same things. Mosquitoes don't respect fence lines.
 
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