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Good article at Cracked.com about woo on TV... (Original Post) Archae Aug 2015 OP
and it's amazing how insulted some of the perps get when they are challenged NRaleighLiberal Aug 2015 #1
I challenged a homeschooling textbook seller once... Archae Aug 2015 #2
Demagetized? But I thought magnets would cure all my ills. progressoid Aug 2015 #3
that you in the lower right? looking very cured to me! NRaleighLiberal Aug 2015 #4
Ha! Hardly progressoid Aug 2015 #5
I have seldom seen my mother get as angry... Orrex Aug 2015 #6

NRaleighLiberal

(60,545 posts)
1. and it's amazing how insulted some of the perps get when they are challenged
Sat Aug 22, 2015, 02:35 PM
Aug 2015

About 10 years ago, during our veggie seedling sales, a couple really kissed up to us - which made me suspicious (it didn't seem sincere). Turns out whey wanted me to buy gallon jugs of special "demagnetized water" from them for improved gardening performance of the plants. With my PhD in chemistry, I just started lightly challenging their premise. First came the snark/faux insult...but they vanished without a trace, and we, shall we say, lost them as customers.

Archae

(46,842 posts)
2. I challenged a homeschooling textbook seller once...
Sat Aug 22, 2015, 04:35 PM
Aug 2015

From Bob Jones "university."

Boy, I never heard the end of the yells!
Was called everything form a Satanist to some obscene names.

Fundys do NOT like being called out on history or science.

Orrex

(64,209 posts)
6. I have seldom seen my mother get as angry...
Sun Aug 23, 2015, 10:18 AM
Aug 2015

as the time I told her that her $14.95 copper bracelet didn't heal (or protect against) carpal tunnel.

She explicitly (and furiously) told me that she'd rather believe something that she knows to be false than accept an unpleasant truth.

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