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Question:

I think the problem you are having with all the anger directed at you is similar to the cancer support groups, where there are posts from psychic healers, herb and root sellers, crystals, pyramids, hyperbaric oxygen chambers, etc.  The members of the group get very mad at them, because they stand to make a profit iff someone reads the post and believes it will work. Most of the people in here are in dire straights, and magnets are viewed as quackery.  I have never tried them, and personally don’t intend to, but people in dire straights will often try anything and everything. I do believe that anyone that actually gains pain relief from magnets is having the old sugar-pill mental effect, but I don’t intend to prove or argue that point. If you were not a representative of Theramagnets, selling magnets for money, you would perhaps at least receive civil reponses, although they would still be aimed at debunking the whole premise.   Unfortunately, the desperate people here make a very fertile ground for scams.  I don’t believe in magnets because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.

Response:

Legolas, I think this person means well, but like most people here, I resent his or her constant posts and the feeling that s/he is selling her product. I received email from her when I just came on and wrote back to say to leave me alone. It was private but I see more and more of her posts and she does not seem to take a hint. To Theramagnets – perhaps if you used a different email name and did not appear to be always promoting your pet product, we’d have patience. I was polite to you, but I cannot understand why you repeatedly go on line wiht this stuff that many of us have said we do  not want to hear. Consider it, ok? Andi – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I think the problem you are having with all the anger directed at you is similar to the cancer support groups, where there are posts from psychic healers, herb and root sellers, crystals, pyramids, hyperbaric oxygen chambers, etc.  The members of the group get very mad at them, because they stand to make a profit iff someone reads the post and believes it will work. Most of the people in here are in dire straights, and magnets are viewed as quackery.  I have never tried them, and personally don’t intend to, but people in dire straights will often try anything and everything. I do believe that anyone that actually gains pain relief from magnets is having the old sugar-pill mental effect, but I don’t intend to prove or argue that point. If you were not a representative of Theramagnets, selling magnets for money, you would perhaps at least receive civil reponses, although they would still be aimed at debunking the whole premise. Unfortunately, the desperate people here make a very fertile ground for scams.  I don’t believe in magnets because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.

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