Snake oil energy salesmen & green bamboozlers Cleantech ...

Katie Fehrenbacher, gigaom.com
2012-04-26 07:00:01

But the green energy sector has its own specific brand of snake oil salesman that benefit from the difficulties of knowing and proving breakthroughs in science ; the optimism of investors who want to give their funds to investments that have a higher aim; and the fact that a ... Take ee Stor, which probably wouldn't consider itself a scam, but which promised huge gains for its ultracapacitor yet never publicly proved its technology nor showed off or commercialized its tech.

Snake Oil Supplements Science -Based Life

Kyle Hill, sciencebasedlife.wordpress.com
2012-05-21 19:41:00

With the frightening lack of regulation that is given to a health product merely if you call it a supplement, there has been an incredible profusion of products which claim to improve your health by supplementing your diet.

Intellectual Snake Oil | Shot in the Dark

Mitch Berg, shotinthedark.info
2012-05-17 10:22:11

It digs through the history (long), motivations (predictable) and methodology (laughable) of the constant dribble of social science that claims liberals are genetically/chemically/socially wired to be good-hearted, open-minded, ...

Are We Lumberjacks?: Alternative Energy Snake Oil

lumberjack, arewelumberjacks.blogspot.com
2012-04-04 01:44:00

How would you like 10 or 15 of these modular wind turbine strapped to the side of your house? It would look cool. Your friends would ask you about it, and you could get mega-smug about how you feel a connection with Gaia ...

Archive Gallery: Swindlers, Quackery and Snake Oil | Popular Science

Rose Pastore, popsci.com
2012-03-09 20:40:53

Archive Gallery: Swindlers, Quackery and Snake Oil · The Future ... Stay up to date on the latest news of the future of science and technology from your i Phone or Android phone with full articles, images and offline viewing ...

Snake Oil Science : The Truth About Complementary and Alternative ...

Prosperity Health, prosperityhealthandaging.typepad.com
2012-05-17 00:11:38

Snake Oil Science : The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine Hailed in the New York Times as "entertaining and immensely educational," Snake Oil Science is not only a brilliant Health and Wellness and Anti ...

Snake Oil Trading Blog: China energy use has gone into slow ...

Sozen, snakeoil1.blogspot.com
2012-05-13 00:54:00

China's April industrial production index rose only 9.3% from a year ago, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. It was the first single digit growth since May 2009. Year-on-year growth of electric power generation in the ...

The Catholic Science Geek: Buying Snake Oil from Traveling ...

The Catholic Science Geek, thecatholicsciencegeek.blogspot.com
2012-05-02 05:50:00

I'm Catholic and I'm a science geek. What more could I ever want? A BLOG! That's right, a blog that will enable me to share my journey through the realms of faith and Ph D candidacy with stories, art, shared experiences, musings, a touch of ...

Video: Ray Svenson From the HPT Practitioner & Legacy Series ...

guywwallace, eppic.biz
2012-05-22 16:00:45

Technology is the application of Science . HPT requires EBP Evidence Based Practices or else it's potentially Foo Foo or Snake Oil . - Practitioner Series short 2-10 minutes, following a script. Intended to show the diversity ...

If It's Not Snake Oil , It's Pretty Awesome (Part 2)

Ed Felten, freedom-to-tinker.com
2007-05-15 13:18:12

In other words, the target companies have a legal obligation to buy the company's technology and, on the same theory, any other technology that claims to stop infringement. Snake oil purchases are now mandatory.

Snake Oil Science : The Truth about Complementary and Alternative ...

Holistic Healing, holistichealingsite.com
2007-04-24 20:48:45

Snake Oil Science : The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Millions of people worldwide swear by such therapies as acupuncture, herbal cures, and homeopathic remedies. Indeed, complementary and alternative medicine ...

Review: Science Tales by Darryl Cunningham graphicmedicine

Ian Williams, graphicmedicine.wordpress.com
2012-05-21 11:35:30

Science Tales. Darryl Cunningham. 2012 Myriad Editions 178 pp. ISBN 978-0-9567926-8-6. Hardcover PS11.99. Darryl Cunningham, a gentle and thoughtful man of imposing height, does not pull his punches when it comes to ... His new book Science Tales seeks, through the application of common sense and good science , to expose and dismiss the 'lies, scams and hoaxes' perpetrated by lazy journalists, corrupt corporate spin doctors and peddlers of snake oil .

Sac Louis Vuitton Pas Cher Law Of Attraction Science Or Snake - oil ...

adminob, fsashoesxi.com
2012-05-12 04:13:36

Sac Louis Vuitton Pas Cher Law Of Attraction Science Or Snake - oil . Posted by adminob on May 12, 2012 at 4:13 am. h of them have a verifiable point. Many folk have tried to requisition the Law of Attraction within their lives and failed ...

Snake Oil Trading Blog: Is US petroleum demand bottomed out?

Sozen, snakeoil1.blogspot.com
2012-05-21 04:53:00

Weekly statistics released by the Energy Information Administration has shown year-on-year increase in supply of U.S. petroleum products since the week ending 27th April. Therefore, supply in May might be higher than a ...

Stifling Discovery: Science Foundation Ireland's New Mission and ...

Editor, educationalstandards.wordpress.com
2012-05-22 20:44:39

Along the way in this post we also get an insight into the new 'academic entrepreneur' snake - oil that is seeping through the upper echelons of the Irish education system, inflating salaries at the top and misdirecting scarce resources. ... for as the noble Bacon had declared, experiments of light ultimately conduce to a whole troop of inventions useful to the life and state of man (Robert K. Merton, Science , Technology , and Society in Seventeenth Century England, 1938).

Skeptic e Skeptic Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

unknown, skeptic.com
2008-03-19 08:00:00

In this week's e Skeptic, Harriet Hall, M.D, a.k.a. the Skep Doc , reviews R. Barker Bausell's book entitled Snake Oil Science : The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Intelligent Design: snake - oil science cries 'whaa whaa whaa' The ...

Steve P, sciencebysteve.net
2011-02-09 01:37:09

Intelligent Design: snake - oil science cries 'whaa whaa whaa'. By Steve P, on February 8th, 2011. It always seems surprising when I hear LDS people arguing for the Discovery Institute's fundamentalist evangelical campaign of Intelligent ...

GOP Snake Oil About Gas Prices | Rob Perks's Blog | Switchboard ...

Rob Perks, switchboard.nrdc.org
2012-04-04 00:59:33

Just before leaving Washington for this two-week recess, House Republican leaders armed their rank-and-file troops with a 21-page "House Energy Action Team" playbook that directs them to use the media and oil industry ...

Over The Fence: Sorting snake Oil From Science On... | Stuff.co.nz

Jon Morgan - over the fence, stuff.co.nz
2012-01-26 16:00:00

Quite an industry has grown up around this, with some manufacturers making extraordinary claims. One was taken to court by the Commerce Commission in 2007 and fined $26000. The judge said he was selling " snake oil ".

Feature Report: Legitimizing Global Tyranny: How Theorizing Snake ...

truther, pakalertpress.com
2012-05-19 10:20:46

... comments). You Are Here: Home Featured, New World Order, Project 2012, Strange, Unknown History Feature Report: Legitimizing Global Tyranny: How Theorizing Snake - Oil Salesmen Sell World Government ... Promoting the recognition of the fact that, if the countries of the world are still divided by their interests and their political convictions, they are, day by day, growing more closely interdependent in matters of economics, science , technology and culture.