Ionic wrist bands

Grimmerick

Anyone try these and feel like they worked for them? Personally I do not believe that they work, I do believe in the possibility (very slight possibility) of a Placebo effect from them but maybe only for a few true believers. The mind is a strong thing you know. So I just want to get most peoples thoughts on them. Have you tried them, do you feel they work? Would you never try them because you know they don't work? Just wondering what the majority thinks about them.

cobracars

I think they work great for the people selling them, not so much for the people buying them.

to paraphrase PT Barnum: There's a sucker born every minute

jarrettd

Hubs got suckered at the Mall...bought 2 of them. He showed me what the salesman had him do to demonstrate the "strength" the bracelet gave him. It was simple muscle-memory tricks. You'd always do better the 2nd go-round, bracelet or no.

(This is why I NEVER let my hubs listen to Time-Share Sales Pitches!)

But you got the placebo effect idea right. Professor Dumbledore: "Of course it's all in your head, Harry, but why in the world would that make you think it isn't real?"

binary_jester

Excerpt taken from the following link:

http://www.skepdic.com/qray.html

For those who prefer science to common sense and humor, I suggest you read the report from the Mayo Clinic on a double-blind, control group, randomized test of allegedly ionized bracelets (Q-Ray bracelets) vs. placebos for pain relief. Guess what the scientists found? No difference. That should yin the yang out of anybody's chi. Not really. Believers in magic will complain that the study wasn't carried out long enough (it went for 28 days) or that it wasn't large enough (it included 610 men and women 18 and older who had self-reported musculoskeletal pain at the beginning of the study). Or they will take great pleasure in noting that both groups reported a significant relief from pain, proving (to the magical mind) that both Q-Ray bracelets and placebos are effective pain relievers. Even if that's true for some kinds of pain, placebos might be a lot cheaper and more efficient: they work without recourse to increasing chi, balancing yin and yang, or disturbing anyone's ions. If you want to start a company selling placebo bracelets, I'll give you a free name: call it the Quack-Ray bracelet and charge accordingly. In the meantime, read Barry Beyerstein's little essay: "Why Bogus Therapies Often Seem to Work."

BrettPGH

If magic wrist bands gave you strength/balance/health everyone would wear them. Militaries would cover their soldiers in these "ionic particles" they try to sell you. 100% complete and utter scam.

I will state that I haven't done the research myself, but with bull this obvious it's fairly easy.