So sorry that you lack options.
“I don’t know enough to actually challenge your claims, so I’ll use childish insults instead.”
By your statement, “woo” is the childish insult, correct? I don’t see how you can consider that to be part of the definition of “woo”, but perhaps I’m just not up to your brilliance at definitions.
I suppose the important point here is whether it does any harm, apart from damaging one’s bank balance.
So…a light fixture?
Without the ability to examine it, at the very least it will suck a lot of money from the victims.
I remember an advert for a magical generator that will sit in your yard and power your home. To buy one, you had to send $400 as a pre-order earnest of payment.
So these things do even less harm than homeopathic remedies, since in the latter case at least you get a glass of water.
If you are so convinced in its effectiveness that it kills you because you failed to get proper medical care, that might be seen as harm – or it might be seen as natural selection.
People can be fucking willfully stupid, but the guilt ultimately lies with the Elizabeth Holmes-types, so you can’t just write it off as natural selection.
Predation is a form of natural selection.
I took a look at their “About Us” page About Us | Energy Enhancement System™ (eesystem.com) and, while it is fixed to make cut-and-pasting next to impossible, it is not hard to ascertain that these are the Kings And Queens Of Woo. Did you know that Doctor Sandra Rose Michael is a “Dame Commander Of The Order of St. John in the Orthodox Knights Hospitaller tradition and is the Minister Of Health for the Republic of New Lemuria”? There is similar fantastic B.S. for the others…except for the Director Of Operations himself, Michael Bertolacini. There is no picture for this amazing man, and all it says about him is “The Enigma that is the keeper of all things technical and logistical”.
Here are a few things about the company that do not come from their website:
Ripoff Report | Sandra Rose Michaels Review - Las Vegas, Nevada
Ripoff Report | EEsystem Review - , Internet - Eesystem eesystemcom
Energy Enhancement System Reviews | eesystem.com @ PissedConsumer
From the Daily Beast article I linked earlier:
But perhaps no one has been as helpful to EE System as New Age internet personality Jason Shurka, who has more than 120,000 YouTube followers. This spring, Shurka interviewed Michael and introduced her as a representative of “The Light System,” a 1,000-year-old covert network of do-gooders, not all of them human.
That’s high praise from Shurka, who has billed himself as another representative of that underground club. In the interview, Shurka claimed the benevolent forces at The Light System had deputized Michael to promote the EE System as part of their plan to save the world. Michael responded with some far-out theorizing of her own, claiming that shadowy forces had tried to assassinate her multiple times to stop her from spreading the technology. (Michael’s company didn’t provide The Daily Beast with any evidence of the death plots).
You are asking how it works, but they tell you:
“Black Box technology” means “we don’t know how it works”. And, unless you have strong evidence to show they got the technology off a literal space alien or a trans dimensional civilization that lived on Antarctica 100 million years ago, it also means “bullshit”.
They have this to say:
Which, even if it made any sense, still sounds like bullshit. “Non-linear” when used this way is nonsensical.
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The Daily Beast article linked upthread provides a decent rundown. I’ll repost:
It appears to consist of a set of 4-48 flat-screen monitors displaying a light-show:
To the uninitiated, an EE System device looks just like a couple of computer monitors playing colored static. …
In 2012, Michael became embroiled in a lawsuit with acupuncturist Michael Kaufmann, who began distributing a product similar to the EE System…
In Religa’s telling, the device that Michael found so similar to her own wasn’t based on any kind of wave technology. Instead, it was just a computer program that generated different kinds of colored static screens—a sort of color therapy, at best, but nothing that could cure leukemia.
And they are ordinary LCD monitors bought at Best Buy. Basically, the treatment is a 1990s screen saver.
do not unmute this
That’s more like a 1980s demo.
Here is the Q-ish weirdness I was trying to remember. Textbook BTWB (baffle them with bullshit).