The New Snake Oil: False, Ridiculous Claims

[Guest guest]

Recently I received the following unsolicited nonsense

[see texts 2141985 and 2152992 from COM]:

 

> "The Group of the Russian military scientist of Centre of

> computer science 'Gamma-7' has developed the unique device --

> passive broadband oscillator of thin physical fields, which

> is used in quality neitralizator of abnormal radiations and

> refers to as 'Gamma-7'."

 

The devotee who forwarded this announcement then described an utterly

useless and certainly ridiculous object for which he made bizarre

and impossible claims of alleged health benefits and alleged

protection from nuclear radiation.

 

It doesn't matter if the thing is made of gold, silver, brass, silicon

and germanium, as he claims, or if it is made of recycled food-grade

steel cans with a tin lining, or carved from wood, or imagined in

the mind. Such devices, whether fashioned in Archimedean spirals,

Pythagorean triangles, asymptotic or logarithmic curves, or simply

the puddled dross scooped off the top of a foundry crucible, are

merely an illusory or cheating device whose theoretical "benefits"

will never be realized. This is simply another way for charlatans to

fleece the devotee community of hard-earned lakshmi. Do not send

one kopek, zloty or rupee for this worthless thing.

 

Clearly the scientists in the former Soviet Union are hurting, for

loss of official state support for their researches, and some have

now been reduced to creating nonsense devices for which the best

thing that can be said is at least they do not damage the health

of the person wearing them. The promotion of such money-stealing

schemes on COM does, however, demonstrate an alarming credulity

on the part of otherwise-intelligent devotees who ought to know

better.

 

Instead of quoting Vaisnava shastra, guru and sadhu, we are now

quoting from the trivial and mercenary press-releases of venal

and greedy commercial interests. In the absence of scientific

peer review and verifiable double-blind testing, corrupt rascals

and cheaters are permitted to make all sorts of unsubstantiated

and unproven claims which are not merely dubious, but clearly and

entirely false, though masked within the thin veneer or guise of

typical scientific jargon.

 

Such claims have no place in the society of devotees, nor among

any group of educated people. They are intended solely to fleece

the gullible and stupid. Any devotee who purchases one of these

devices merely proves his own stupidity and unfitness for devotional

service:

 

"Persons devoid of atma-tattva do not inquire into the

problems of life, being too attached to the fallible

soldiers like the body, children and wife. Although

sufficiently experienced, they still do not see their

inevitable destruction. O descendant of King Bharata,

one who desires to be free from all miseries must hear

about, glorify and also remember the Personality of

Godhead, who is the Supersoul, the controller and the

saviour from all miseries." -- Srimad-Bhagavatam, 2.1.4-5

 

With sad heart, my all best wishes,

Ananda das