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Entries Tagged as 'Scams and Consumer Alerts'

Water: Where Scam Artists Get Their Energy

Free-Energy Physics Scams and Consumer AlertsKyle
Kyle @ July 29th, 2008 - 2 Comments

It seems every other day that someone comes up with a way to extract useful chemical energy from water. The fact that it’s physically impossible is less important than the fact that one can always find gullible people to fork over large quantities of money for these so-called “inventions”.
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The Bill C-51 Update

Anti-Science Medicine Naturopathy Scams and Consumer Alerts StupidityPaul
Paul @ May 16th, 2008 - 1 Comment

Two weeks ago, I wrote about Bill C-51, Canada’s answer to the currently obsolete system of food and drug regulation. As is expected by the non-science crowd, they weren’t happy.
Clearly, a lot has happened since. Namely:
Our friends at Ottawa Skeptics have written several articles on the issue-

Bill C-51 – Jackboot Inspections, Big [...]

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