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Yes, medical bullshiters prey on people looking for cures and desperate or bored people
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will believe what they want to believe. So, just to believe how strong the power
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of suggestion really is, we spent all day at a popular mall. We set p a bunch of
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outrageous fake medical equipment along with our very own fake doctor, who demonstrated our products to a
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lot of willing believers. Like this lady. Tell me a little bit about what your problem
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is. Oh, my problem is with my right wrist, it is something that kind of comes and goes and it makes it hard
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for me to move my wrist where it is painful.
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Magnet therapy, in case you didn't know, has been around for thousands of years. The
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idea is that the magnets attract the iron in the blood so if you would like to try it, . . .
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Sure - anything that would help relieve this pain . . ..
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Alright. We started with a child's toy magnet to see how that would work.
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Ooo. I do feel . . . Oh it feels like there is something kind of rushing through there . . .
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A little rushing sensation.
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Well, that magnet really seemed to be doing the trick. The only thing is, that earlier we demagnetized
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all the magnets and they were not doing diddley. Since the small magnets worked so well,
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how would a bigger magnet do? especially a phoney one made out of aluminum rain gutter?
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Wow!
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We want to put it above your hands here and start moving it and you tell me if you
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feel anything. Is that stronger or . . .?
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Oh, I feel it - right in here!
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And it is a little stonger!
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Our fake big boy magnet seemed to be doing the trick. But we were not through yet.
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So let's try our magnomitts, and these not only have magnets on the outside, as you can see,
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they have them sewn on the inside. See if this helps you to make it easier to do that for you?
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You know something? I actually think I am feeling some kind of relief with this magnet!
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Well, the magnomitts were really working, so our next product should be even more beneficial. [music]
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Our very special magnohat. Our patient gave the product a thorough workout before giving us her verdict.
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I have kind of a sensation of uh maybe a little more energy?
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Well, the power of suggestion was working its magic, so we wanted to know how much she would pay for
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a pair of magnomitts?
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Uh, magnomits like this? Oh, maybe 30 dollars for the pair.
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You know, if we worked her, she would go $50.
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Our phony doctor had is own bit of chiropractic fun flammery to try out. But was anyone going to
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fall for it? We have here a chiropractic coat. This is the first comsumer self-adjusting chiropractic
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coat. it is all done with weights. Can you feel that weight?
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Yeah.
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I can see that you are just sort of listing a little bit to the left here.
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Okay.
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You can just pull these weights and redistribute them, if you wanted to just stick that
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there, for example, very simple. Right?
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Yeah.
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Now we are going to take these weights here, and place them here.
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So what we are going to do now is let you walk in the coat, and we will tak to each other
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on this walky talky.
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Okay. [Flute music]
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How is it feeling?
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It feels good, It feels good. Everything feels pretty much balanced. Might have a little more
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weight to my left than my right.
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Try changing that right now.
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Okay, I made the adjustment.
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Let me know how if feels.
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It feels really good. I can feel it working my vertebras.
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Raise your right arm. Lets put the right arm out and the left arm up. Try lifting
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your leg onto the bench and just walking forward with your left foot on the bench and your
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right foot on the ground.
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Before using the chirocoat I felt more sluggish and after using the chirocoat I felt more energized,
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it kind of pulled my vertebras together and made me feel a lot better than I did before.
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What would you pay for a coat?
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I would pay upwards to about 200 bucks.
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So - let's go back to the mall to see if someone would take part in our good doctor's most ambitious s
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scheme yet.
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I hear your are here to have a little facial with our new patented mucous mask.
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Yes sir.
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Snail mucous, for example contains glycoprotein.
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Yeah - he said snail mucous.
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They are not really going to let us do this - are they?
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Let's start going here. Feel good?
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Mmhmm. They are nice and cool on my face.
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Feel that?
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Oh yeah.
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As they move its like me feeling across my face - where they leave their mark, my skin
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is tightening up.
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Yeah - he is enjoying his snail facial, and it wasn't just him - others went along with this too.
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Actually this is the first time I have ever heard of the mucous mask. It is a very
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relaxing experience.
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It feels better - I can tell especially underneath my eyes.
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There is a little circular massaging movement.
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Actually it is feeling pretty nice.. Like a mini-massage on my face. Like a little snail massage.
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Its really cool, I like that.
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And the snails can really sense where those eye wrinkles are and even more important, the snails
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really care about getting rid of your wrinkles.
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But surely people would not pay for this kind of treatment.
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I would probably pay about $25 for a mucous mask treatment.
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After their relaxing snail facial, it was time to find out what they felt were the benefits
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of the mucous mask.
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Oh, yeah, the wrinkles are gone around my eyes.
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My face does feel tighter, like I have used an astringent or some type of mask.
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It was all dry under there and now it is nice and smooth and relaxed.
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[music]
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These people are not stupid, these people are us. People trust others and sadly, sometimes
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that is the problem. We hit the people in the mall with the snail and had a good laugh and
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walked off. But some of these other doctors are at best taking money, and at worst hurting people.
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In between taking people away from treatments that could really help.
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Look, it is not our job to tell you how to live your life, but you don't want to be ripped off
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just because you are not asking enough questions. Fortunately there were plenty of people
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at the mall that knew the snails were bullshit, it just wasn't as funny, so we didn't show that.