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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

NRaleighLiberal

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1. and it's amazing how insulted some of the perps get when they are challenged

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Sat Aug 22, 2015, 03:35 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.

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Good article at Cracked.com about woo on TV... [View all] 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