Much hotter with the sticker, imo.

This is a really good video. Everything from a short change to magnet therapy to ESP.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...9972338925774#

When I was given these strips, I immediately thought how the claims for them were highly susceptible to the placebo effect. And I felt nothing. Too bad for me. This syndrome by the way is discussed in the chapter Placebos and Peeping Toms in my new book DUCY.

Phil Hellmuth would not have fallen off his chair if he had been wearing the magical chemically treated strips that change your brain chemistry ...

http://www.bestpokermoments.com/2009...r-by-bad-beat/

I'm sure it's just a placebo effect, but Doyle definitely believes it works. He tweeted about it yesterday about playing without pain. I was confused about it at the time; this is interesting.

also...in after David.

I also would like to put a bid in.

Good video. I would also recommend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_MzP2MZaOo
&
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRilLMNRFPc

So under your guys logic promoting a product is only wrong if it's a complete waste. Even assuming DN is in on the scam and profiting off it, I disagree and don't see the standard here. It's perfectly fine to endorse a T-shirt that costs more because of a logo? Or an athlete endorsing shoes claiming its the reason for his success when obv he doesn't believe that. Tons of little kids blowing 150 bucks on 30 dollar shoes because they saw MJ on a commericial is ok b/c well u can still use the shoes but a few bucks on band aids is immoral. Truth is DN's pokerstars commericials are way worse but they get ppl at the tables so u guys dont care. :P

Awesome article in Psychology Today:

Magical Thinking

One of the most fascinating tidbits is that magical thinking is strongly linked to dopamine in the brain. By administering L-Dopa (which turns to dopamine once it gets into the brain) to skeptical thinkers, they could turn them into "believers". Dopamine is also linked to our ability to feel pleasure, spot patterns in randomness, athletic prowess, addiction... and compulsive gambling. Looked at this way, it's no wonder that superstition and magical thinking is rampant in the gambling world. And unfortunately it makes a lot of poker players prime targets for frauds like the magic Band-Aid.

Several people have said they think Daniel's perpetrating a fraud here. I find this highly unlikely. This is the guy who disassociated himself from UB long before there were any public allegations simply because he thought Russ & some of the other people involved were shady. It just doesn't seem in character for Daniel to be scamming people for money. I think he got ambushed and swept up in the demonstration, and gave a sincere thumbs up for a product he thought was legit. But he's a smart guy and now just needs to zero in on the illogic of the whole thing.

It was covered, but this Negreanu thing hits so close to home for poker players I may have to revisit the topic in an upcoming episode.

its great how many people drop in just to defend scamming in general.

The difference is that there is no claim that a t-shirt is anything but a t-thirt or that a shoe is anything but a shoe. If MJ had claimed his Nike shoes had some kind of paranormal abilities, he too would have been called a scammer.

Hope that clears it up for you.

plus even if it was a scam, at least you'd still have some ****ing shoes and not some worthless ass sticker

At least you can walk with a pair of shoes.. what can you do with a worthless sticker except hiding a freshly squeezed zit or a bad shaving cut ?

Dude, this thread is about energy strips, not wart cream.

well played

surprised 1) that DN thought that that was a reasonable defense 2) that Sklansky posted in this thread so early and 3) lol holograms.

Interesting.

They claim the strips interact with the body's energy, as some advanced form of acupuncture. While this is clearly a scam (based on the misdirection in the demonstration video), the theory it exploits is interesting.

Traditional science explains this "life force energy" as low luminescence photons emitted from biological cells resulting from some excess thermodynamic breakdown. The more biophotons from a cell, the more unhealthy it is based on it having more free radicals.

Some researchers (professors, PhDs) believe the low light has some type of macro coherent field (for cellular communication) that relates to the health of our body. This "light" is the so-called human aura but it can be seen with test equipment like PMTs which can detect individual photons. However, most scientists believe it is just excess energy.

I have seen a glass disc that can allegedly interact with this field have an amazing effect on plants but never seen any real proof. There is a cool particle physics model that explains how it could work - http://www.tachyonmodel.com

(Trying to not let the scam artists dilute interesting science.)

To be clear, I am not saying that the product doesn't work. I am saying that it didn't work for me. And that the claims that it makes involve symptoms that are often helped by a placebo. Those two facts have an impact on the probability that the strips are legitimate, but they don't prove that they are not.

I doubt that happens to skeptics who are well trained in science and logic. I'm guessing this would only work with people who have a psychological predisposition to be skeptics rather than people who can think well.

FINALLY!!! This was one of my biggest leaks. I'm ordering at least 12 boxes today, will give a TR after ldo w/ graphs and pie charts.

I really enjoyed your Brain Fail series and this really fits in with the topics discussed perfectly.

To DN: Have you watched that video series? You REALLY REALLY should if you haven't and if you have, wtf?

But the burden of proof should be on them, should it not? And the only "proof" we've seen so far is the Applied Kinesiology parlor trick that HAS in fact been discredited in multiple double-blind studies.

MORE JIMMY LEGS

The one thing I can't fathom in the video is why DN didn't do the second test on the girl? Why would he trust the strip guy when he could very easily check out the claims himself?