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I have recently seen these commercials for Q-Ray “ionized bracelets.” Claims include better living, “balance” in life, and even weight loss. Claims also include great design, which is obviously wrong even at first sight.
Numerous complaints have gone through to Q-Ray, and apparently the feds have charged them. The Q-Ray has a half-hour informercial with “happy users” continously shouting “It Works!” There is even more promotion from a professional LPGA golder, Sandra Post.
I can also vouch that the Q-Ray is a load of garbage. Q-Ray also has a necklace, with the same piece of metal that is in my Suunto Smart Watch as the antenna (and no, the watch does not advertise “better living” as a feature). The same piece of metal that is in the Q-Ray DOES advertise “better living”.
Qray Product Page [Via: Qray]
The Mayo Clinic did a study on these “ionized bracelets” that supposedly balance your bodies energies to make you feel good. (url below) They concluded that the bracelets are no different from a placebo and the positive effects are merely a result of the wearer’s perception that the bracelet worked. The power of suggestion is amazing.
http://www.mayoclinic.org/news2002-rst/1528.html
I’m not sure how shelling out upwards of $100 for an ugly metal bracelet would fill me with an overwhelming sense of happiness and satisfaction.
Well OBVIOUSLY it’s not going to work. It hasn’t got any MAGNETS! Duh! :)
Penn & Teller did an episode on Bullsh*t! about crap like this. For anyone with half a brain it was all pretty obvious, but there are a lot of people out there who’ll buy into it because the con artists sound so SURE of themselves. It’s just the modern version of snake oil.