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Infinity water

emmalouise99

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Please let this be an elaborate hoax...

www.infinitywater.us

"In the environment there are moments of ideal water motion as it crashes around in to ongoing flow, but there is a lack of perfect flow in creating reverse vortexing all the time – with a lot of randomness taking place"

and

"Because Infnity Water hydrates more efffectively based on biocompatibility there are functional benefits that empowers the body to heal all disease*"

with the footnote

"*Disease is defned as the opposite of ease (dis-ease versus ease) and not disease in a medical sense. Drinking Infinity Water® daily establishes a state of ease to dispel patterns of dis-ease and therefore to reestablish a vital state of health."

It also claims to be the key to being "happy and prosperous". It certainly is for the folks behind this... at $39 US per 16.9 oz bottle.
 
emmalouise99 said:
Please let this be an elaborate hoax...
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Don't count on it. It's just a scam to relieve some stupid people of their money.

"In the environment there are moments of ideal water motion as it crashes around in to ongoing flow, but there is a lack of perfect flow in creating reverse vortexing all the time – with a lot of randomness taking place"
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Makes you wonder what forward vortexing is, doesn't it?

"Because Infnity Water hydrates more efffectively based on biocompatibility there are functional benefits that empowers the body to heal all disease*"
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Thers is no such thing as biocompatibility water, there is just water.

"*Disease is defned as the opposite of ease (dis-ease versus ease) ..."
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No, it's not.
 
<sighs> <shakes head>

I'm no fluid dynamician (if that isn't a word it should be) but I'm pretty sure that the inverse cartesian solids they claim to produce in the water using special vortices (dodecahedrons anyone?) neither exist, nor would be of any flipping use if they did.

Still I'm prepared to be proved wrong. I'd love to see some sort of test involving giving a control group, matched for age, gender etc. normal water with a balanced diet and giving the people behind that website no water or food at all, over a period of several days. It wouldn't prove anything, I know, but it might make me feel better.

Feeling very dis-eased...
 
Never gonna happen emmalouise.

These people are little more than common criminals.
 
Sad isn't it. TGF types like Randi and the other defenders of free thinking. How can one combat these sorts of things - not just on a "hearts and minds" (well, minds anyway) basis? Is their any legal recourse in country to get these people to have more than a homeopathic dose of truth in their advertising? I guess the problem is that the site could be hosted in any country and could be moved at ant time.

(This is the great advantage of the internet of course when it comes to protecting free speech... I think that the medium isn't the problem,I guess is what I'm struggling to make clear, the message is.)

Are there any legal statutes that allow the buyer recourse if the product they buy isn't manufactured the way it's purported to be? Or is it only if the product doesn't do what they claim it does (and of course the claims all charlatans make are so vague as to be inassailable). Is the legal position really just "caveat emptor"?

I'm sure there are some knowledgeable lawyers/law makers out there - do you have anything in your armoury we can use against the snake oil merchants?

Cheers

Emma
 
emmalouise99 said:
Are there any legal statutes that allow the buyer recourse if the product they buy isn't manufactured the way it's purported to be? Or is it only if the product doesn't do what they claim it does (and of course the claims all charlatans make are so vague as to be inassailable). Is the legal position really just "caveat emptor"?
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Hi Emma (Welcome to the forum, by the way!)

In the UK, at least, there are trading standards that you must adhere to by law. They cover things such as advertising, and claims made about a product. The trouble is that they're quite easy to circumvent by using words like "May", "Believe", "Can". Personally, I'd still like to stomp on them, not least since my father tells me his local pharmacist is currently pushing "Penta Water" (a similar quack product). A pharmacist. Who has a shop in the local GP's health centre. Gaah!
 
emmalouise99 said:
Ow! Penta water? Hydrogen pentoxide..?

<sighs for those whose desparation is exploited...>
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Truth be told, I'm not sure why it's called Penta - it is a brand name rather than any indication of what's in the bottle.

(You may want to strap yourself in for this bit). Penta's selling point is that ordinary water clumps together in clusters, which are difficult for your body to absorb. Their magic water has been specially processed to have small clusters, which are 14% easier to absorb. "You can drink a whole bottle without feeling bloated!", crowed the aforementioned pharmacist.

I apologise for any damage done to your BS meter.

Obviously the Infinity Water folks have decided that they can cash in on the same gullibility. It's dreadful, really.
 
NORA KOSZTOLANYI’S INFINITY WATER® Is a Highly Potentized Living Water Concentrate
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Concentrate??? WTF? What did they take out? How do you reconstitute it, add water? Criminey!

Here's a quote from their testimonial page which clearly exemplifies the type of people who would fall for this:
I suffered from a head injury that almost killed me when I was 18 when I fell hiking in the mountains and fractured my skull. There are metal plates in my head now...
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Says it all, doesn't it?
 
I've often thought about selling "Dihydrogen Oxide Pellets" for use in chilling beverages, enhancing flavor of said beverages, and enhancing sexual experiences.

Unfortunately ice cubes melt during shipping.
 
odorousrex said:
I've often thought about selling "Dihydrogen Oxide Pellets" for use in chilling beverages, enhancing flavor of said beverages, and enhancing sexual experiences.

Unfortunately ice cubes melt during shipping.
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All the better. Wouldn't want anybody stealing your formula...!
 

Personally, I'd still like to stomp on them, not least since my father tells me his local pharmacist is currently pushing "Penta Water" (a similar quack product). A pharmacist. Who has a shop in the local GP's health centre. Gaah!
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That's disgusting. Isn't there someone we can complain to? After all, these people are licensed, and are trusted to give medical advice. Surely we can get this investigated?
 
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