Many MLMs promote health products such as juices or pills. In every case I have come across this amounts to Quackery. The hope is that through a number of factors the products will be accepted by the public even though they haven’t been properly proven to work.
As a potential consumer, you don’t want to waste your hard-earned money on quackery. There’s no reason to support snake-oil marketers. The question then becomes, how do you determine what is quackery?
Here’s are a few resources to keep in mind:
1. Real science vs. fake science: How can you tell them apart?
2. More Ploys That Can Fool You – This list of items from Quackwatch details a number of tactics that quacks will use to get you to buy their product. Here are a couple of highlighted phrases that quacks will use:
- “time-tested” / “used for centuries” – They point out that this advice would also apply to practices such as astrology, which are clearly not scientific in nature.
- “Think for yourself” – This is used to “urge people to disregard scientific evidence in favor of personal experience. But personal experience is not the best way to determine whether a method works.”
3. This poster from Sci-ence:
Have more resources to suggest? Let me know in the comments.
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