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Post by kath on Jul 20, 2006 10:39:37 GMT
www.quackometer.net/Find out how quacky and full of dodgy health advice a person or website is. It's useful and fun:)
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mr6
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Post by mr6 on Jul 30, 2006 18:36:38 GMT
It's not that good. I ran a 'magick' site thu it and got no ducks.
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Post by kath on Jul 30, 2006 19:51:15 GMT
Hes only concerned with bogus health information, its not a flake-ometer. Does the site have any dodgy health info on it? If you think it has stuff a quack=heath fraud-ometer needs to have in it, email the man, Andy I found when I started to use the site it scored reiki sites very highly, but ones for herbalism, dolphin brain reproggraming and other stuff could get 0 ducks. So I emailed andy with some suggestions and its now far better at picking up the whole range of alternative health systems. It's a 'quackometer project' -a work in progress Love Kath
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Post by lecanardnoir on Aug 6, 2006 10:20:51 GMT
Hi all, as the sneerer responsible for the quackometer web site, Kath has kindly asked me to join your forum. Gladly so!
Any comments and suggestions welcome.
MR6 - yours is not the first comment to say the Quackometer is not working over crank stuff rather than quack stuff. I make no claims to spot cranckery! In my mind, quackery is always about overpromotion of health claims. Do others see it differently?
Noir.
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Post by kath on Aug 6, 2006 15:07:19 GMT
Welcome to the board Andy I hope you find some stuff that interests you here or at least something you can mock. Let's have a heated debate ;D
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j
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Post by j on Aug 7, 2006 21:22:15 GMT
The thing with crankery/new age is that they usually are trying to sell something and claim that it will boost peoples' lives but they'll say it sneakily.
Like say that 'it will change your life' 'increase your income' and such. Make large scale claims that can't really be tested but attract people if they are on a downer.
Then you get into charlatanry which is in between quakery and crankery.
But really it's straying into the territory of a flake-ometer rather than quackometer.
-J
P.S. I'm new. Hello.
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Post by kath on Aug 13, 2006 21:24:33 GMT
lol, that's more accurate than we would have guessed until recently
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