Power Balance ?!?!?!?!?

[UweCskeptik]

Power Balance from what I understand is a hologram that interacts with your bodies natural energy field to improve your balance. The worst part of this entire thing is a professor of mine is practically pitching this thing as if it really works. I was sent via email an "actual scientific study" done by some kinesiologists at St. Cloud State who are claiming there really is something to this. The study itself is less than one page long!!! Help me, Help, HELP...For the love of the FSM, Help!!!!

[Akhenaten]

Power Balance from what I understand is a hologram that interacts with your bodies natural energy field to improve your balance. The worst part of this entire thing is a professor of mine is practically pitching this thing as if it really works. I was sent via email an "actual scientific study" done by some kinesiologists at St. Cloud State who are claiming there really is something to this. The study itself is less than one page long!!! Help me, Help, HELP...For the love of the FSM, Help!!!!


Help you do what exactly? Block email spam? That's pretty easy, but it's the wrong sub-forum.

[The Atheist]

Power Balance from what I understand is a hologram that interacts with your bodies natural energy field to improve your balance. The worst part of this entire thing is a professor of mine is practically pitching this thing as if it really works. I was sent via email an "actual scientific study" done by some kinesiologists at St. Cloud State who are claiming there really is something to this. The study itself is less than one page long!!! Help me, Help, HELP...For the love of the FSM, Help!!!!

What do you need help with?

If there's no science behind it, it will fall like a house of cards in a hurricane.

Stick to asking for facts, double-blind studies and peer-reviewed science and you can't fail.

[UweCskeptik]

I understand this is crap. I know this idea has been done before. When I searched the forum for this product it was not here. I was looking for a sound scientific put down to this product. Perhaps someone can remeber off hand another product that was similar that has been debunked so I can help my professor to see the truth in this matter.

[Soapy Sam]

Is this what you refer to?
http://powerbalance.net/

Complete nonsense, as you say.
Is your professor perhaps getting a cut from sales? That would make him a rogue.
If not, he's just an idiot. They're everywhere.

[Third Eye Open]

What kind of class does this professor teach? Perhaps this is some kind of test to see if students will use what they have learned in the class to show that he is wrong?

[Gord_in_Toronto]

What kind of class does this professor teach? Perhaps this is some kind of test to see if students will use what they have learned in the class to show that he is wrong?

Hmm. Like a reverse Pascal's Wager but with an A+ mark for guessing correctly instead of an eternity with harps. Interesting idea. ;)