Good article at Cracked.com about woo on TV...

[Archae]

Some products get tested, and are shown to be woo.

6 Insane 'As Seen On TV' Products That Are Worse In Person

http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-ridiculous-as-seen-tv-products-tested/

[NRaleighLiberal]

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

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]

2. I challenged a homeschooling textbook seller once...

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.

[progressoid]

3. Demagetized? But I thought magnets would cure all my ills.

Oh, woe is me.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. that you in the lower right? looking very cured to me!

[progressoid]

5. Ha! Hardly

Maybe if I wear that thing long enough, my hair will grow back like his!

[Orrex]

6. I have seldom seen my mother get as angry...

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.