Worst crackpot company ever

[Francois Tremblay]

I saw this site on Crank dot net yesterday. Given that I have a web site dedicated to crackpots on the Internet, I'm always on the lookout for them. But I have to say that this beats the stuffing out of almost anything I've ever seen.

http://www.lifetechnology.org/

Check out the "products". These people basically cram as much ******** they can and hope that some of it sounds believable enough to charge 50$ for a rock or 20$ for a bit of red string.

I can't find any references to this site on the Internet. Is this serious ? I should be jaded about this, but somehow I can't believe this is serious. These people MUST know they are scammers.

(and please don't have it taken down.. I intend to review it eventually)

[thaiboxerken]

Actually, this is a real business making loads of money off of the gullible. They are a powerseller on e-bay as well.

[Rolfe]

You couldn't make it up!

(OK, I know, I know - they did!)

Rolfe.

[Thinking in CT]

I understand that M. Tremblay dosn't want the site taken down just yet, but, take a good look at their logo: The word LIFE (all caps) in white on a red rectangle field. Perhaps Time/Life - Warner might have something to say about that!

[jj]

http://www.lifetechnology.org/hyperdimensional.htm

Is that a parody? You gotta be kiddin' me.

[Soapy Sam]

"Alpha Matterâ„¢ is sold in bulk quantities for use in the manufacture of orgone generating materials, radionics devices, healing tools etc. 100grams of the dry powder are priced at $180 US Dollars per 100grams. Shipping worldwide is charged at $10 US Dollars and insurance is optional."


Sheesh! To think I actually work for a living. I could be flogging alpha matter. (100 g /$180 /100g).

If it is a parody, someone went to a lot of trouble.

[Aussie Thinker]

I don’t know wether to laugh or cry.

I don’t know wether to admire these scammers or detest them.

Sometimes I think a sort of intellectual evolution occurs in these cases. Those with more brains remove money from those who are idiots.

Sadly in modern society these idiots still get to breed.

[RockNroll]

"I don’t know wether to admire these scammers or detest them.
Sometimes I think a sort of intellectual evolution occurs in these cases. Those with more brains remove money from those who are idiots."

My thoughts exactly. Personally I have no tears to shed for those who choose to throw their money away on nonsense when they really should know better. It's not like we live in the Middle East or some other theocratic hellhole where the only info available is religious propaganda : we live in a place where all the knowledge one could wish for is available to whoever bothers to look for it. Therefore, people who spend fortunes on psychics, "healing" cristals, homeopatic "remedies" or quack products like the ones mentionned above have only themselves to blame (unless they're too poor to afford books/computers, or too stupid to read, in which case i'm willing to cut them some slack :D ).

[Dogbreath]

I don't know if this is a "scam" or somebody who has fallen for the bull shooting.

I tracked down this information about the site:
Whois lifetechnology.org?

Domain ID:D104459105-LROR
Domain Name:LIFETECHNOLOGY.ORG
Created On:25-May-2004 13:39:13 UTC
Last Updated On:15-Apr-2005 16:05:18 UTC
Expiration Date:25-May-2007 13:39:13 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Tucows Inc. (R11-LROR)
Status:OK
Registrant ID:tuHwleRFtbZFC22B
Registrant Name:rory mccaffrey
Registrant Organization:life technology
...
Admin Email:rorymccaffrey@aol.com

Apparently he is an artist
http://www.stargazer-records.com/rory_mcaffrey.html

Who was interested in Reiki
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Nebula/7920/geobook.html

But then became an expert :
http://www.chisuk.org.uk/directory/therapists/result.php?custno=4383

[Ladewig]

My vote for worst ever is Dennis Lee and his amazing free electricity generators.

At least Lifetechnology sends a product when you send them money. People who send money to Lee never see anything. Also, Lee has been indicted in more than one state yet that doesn't stop people from sending him money.

[Francois Tremblay]

Thanks for the research Dogbreath. I'll have to add that.

[rjh01]

Do not understand how they can get so much positive feedback on e-bay.

[CFLarsen]

Originally posted by Thinking in CT
I understand that M. Tremblay dosn't want the site taken down just yet, but, take a good look at their logo: The word LIFE (all caps) in white on a red rectangle field. Perhaps Time/Life - Warner might have something to say about that!

I noticed that too. It's a clear ripoff.

Email Time-Warner and see what they say.

[Thinking in CT]

I sent the following to Mr. John Redpath, Senior V.P. and General Counsel of Time, Inc.

Mr. Redpath:

I am a frequent participant in an internet forum held on the web-site of the James Randi Educational Foundation (www.randi.org). The attached web page was posted on one of the boards. I thought that Time, Inc. may be interested in how its intellectual property is being used to sell snake oil. Might the ghost of Henry Luce be turning in his grave?

[thaiboxerken]

He gets positive feedback because he's selling crap that they believe in. If it works or not doesn't matter, because the believer will think it's working.

[Ashles]

Oh my good heavens above!

The Ultimate in DNA repair technology

'Lifecode â„¢' , 'Solcode â„¢', and 'Lifetech Bio-clear â„¢' are all homeopathic products prepared using 'The Solis Method â„¢'.

'The Solis Method â„¢' introduces the toroidal power of implosion(livingness), adds orgone energy, incorporates phi harmonics, tensor fields, sonics and ultasonics, visible and invisible light spectrum energy and,most crucially incorporates specific healing frequencies within the elixirs during preparation.
Also including an avian of the genera Perdix, Alectoris, and Francolinus in the family Phasianidae located in a mature example of Pyrus communis.*


* Partridge in a Pear Tree

[Odin]

The kabbalah capsule was in the commentary:
Commentary (http://www.randi.org/jr/030405a.html)



The Lifetech Elixir of Lifeâ„¢

21st Century Light Healing technology

With this amazing frequency activated water you are instantaneously encoded with the matrix of the new DNA and the Heart/Christ frequencies as gifted by Archangel Michael. A powerful tool for enhancing your light quotient and expanding consciousness. Simply hold the bottle in your hands and concentrate your thoughts on manifesting anything you wish.

With the Lifetech Elixir of Lifeâ„¢ you are instantaneously encoded with the matrix of the new DNA and the HEART / CHRIST Frequency.

Your quotient of LIGHT increases in seconds.

You merge faster with I AM.

The intent imprinted in the Water of Life is to connect you with your Monad/I AM.
:nope:
This is woo in it's purest form.



This company (http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Wings-Therapies-Energy-Centre_W0QQssPageNameZl2QQtZkm) could be worse, though at least they appear to have lowered their prices.

[Thomas]

Originally posted by jj
http://www.lifetechnology.org/hyperdimensional.htm

Is that a parody? You gotta be kiddin' me.
Poor Tesla, always the flagship of unstrained marketing for baloney products.

So many brilliant inventions, yet his name receive so much unjustified contamination.

/off topic

[juryjone]

Vir-X™ is a new and novel formulation designed and created exclusively by Life Technology Research International® .The propietary Neo-Homeopathic™ synthesis utilises aspects of traditional homeopathy, Malcolm Rae's Magneto Geometric methods and Scalar Neo-Radionic™ Cloning. Vir-X™ is in effect is a super potentised Neo-Homeopathic™ preparation which contains a potent energetic signal which stimulates the human vital force.

Thanks for explaining.

Because Vir-Xâ„¢ is a Neo-Homeopathicâ„¢ formulation, it contains no traces of any drug substance whatsoever because its active principle is simply an energetic code to stimumlate the body's own natural energetic forces.

There! They've said it! There is no "there" there!

Vir-Xâ„¢ comes as a sublingual microtablet formulation, and is designed to be used prior to or during sexual intercourse. Dosage is administered by taking one or two microtablets under the tongue.

Sublingual! What a cool word!

I think I'd do better using the microtablets to prop up my little friend.

There's a testimonial from Brian.

My sex drive has improved and having sex is no longer a chore.

Wow. That is wrong in so many ways.

[Ripley Twenty-Nine]

Am I alone in thinking that sites like this are actually a "Good Thingâ„¢"? I think as skeptics we should embrace things like this. Here's why:

I think a large percentage of 'believers' out there have some beliefs, but are not extreme raving 'woowoos'. A lot of people believe that there is something in chi energy, homeopathy, holy water, etc, but aren't willing to, say, reject a conventional doctor's care for it.

So here's a site that takes all of those beliefs, and blows them so far out of proportion, exposing the 'faith not facts' mindset for what it really is. I can't help but hope that some of the straighter thinking believers will look at a site like this, and start to reevaluate some of their beliefs.

Am I just being overly optimistic?

-Ripley 29

[Ashles]

Originally posted by Ripley Twenty-Nine
Am I just being overly optimistic?

-Ripley 29
Let's just say I have a delighful award for you:

Winner of Ashles' Optimism Award of the Day... It's Ripley Twenty-Nine

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[Dr Adequate]

Using The Psychotronic Wishing Machine â„¢ conscious projection of intent is possible and causal engineering ,the manifestation of ones intent occurs. Because everything that exists in the material universe resonates at a specific frequency it is possible through the use of The Psychotronic Wishing Machine â„¢ to define and locate a particular required frequency (rate) of the desired effect and utilise it in the radionic procedure. The Psychotronic Wishing Machine â„¢ can also be autotuned to the frequency (rate) of the specific target ,ie the recipient of the desired energies, and by creating an ethereal structural link in the microcosm of The Psychotronic Wishing Machine â„¢ we affect the structure of the macrocosmic universe, ie the material world as we know it.

[Starrman]

Life Technology Research International® have been granted access to documents and papers pertaining to the patent for Tesla’s original Teslascope and with the aid of our consultant electronics engineers we have been successful in creating The Hyperdimensional Oscillator™ ,a microcircuit which will duplicate the effects of the original device. The circuit is so advanced that it is actually a superconductor powered by scalar energies, the biophoton energy of the cosmos.

WOW! What great things I could accomplish with such advanced technology. Perhaps travel to other planets, or go back in time to fix some of mankind's greatest mistakes. Maybe even unlock the secret of the origin of the universe!

I can't wait to read on and see what it does!

The Hyperdimensional Oscillatorâ„¢ is a tool of healing and enlightenment. It has been gifted to mankind at this time to enable us to awaken and receive the transformational energies of the cosmos.

The Hyperdimensional Oscillatorâ„¢ only allows subtle energy movement in one direction, which is positive and gives a positive spin of energy.

The Hyperdimensional Oscillator™ also acts as a rectifier by keeping the body’s subtle energy field in perfect balance.

The Hyperdimensional Oscillator™ corrects and filters the cosmic energies flowing into the human body to bring increased harmony and balance to the body’s electrical system.

The Hyperdimensional Oscillatorâ„¢ is specially prepared to emit cosmic resonant energy frequencies that synchronize and promote a healthy human bioenergy field.


Oh, never mind then.

[Ripley Twenty-Nine]

Originally posted by Ashles
Let's just say I have a delighful award for you:

Winner of Ashles' Optimism Award of the Day... It's Ripley Twenty-Nine


Oh, why thank you. I'd like to thank all of the little people who made this possible... etc, etc.

Seriously though, I'm fairly new here and still have hope left.. Give me some time. :)

-Ripley 29

[rjh01]

Actually, I think Ripley Twenty-Nine has the right idea. One of us should get onto e-bay and start flooding the market with trash like this site has. Should make heaps of money. Might give the whole ‘alternative’ industry a bad name.

Any budding entrepreneurs out there?

[Powa]

Originally posted by rjh01
Any budding entrepreneurs out there?
Hey, I like money as the next greedy bastard, but I'm not prepared to have my consciousness surgically removed just yet.

[rjh01]

Use your imagination. Sell things in a way that makes both you and your customers feel good. Make your products work as advertised. Educate your customers. So there is no need to go to an ‘alternative’ surgeon to have your brain removed.

[Powa]

Originally posted by Powa
Hey, I like money as the next greedy bastard, but I'm not prepared to have my <s>consciousness</s> conscience surgically removed just yet.
I hope this makes more sense now.

[Ripley Twenty-Nine]

Originally posted by rjh01
Use your imagination. Sell things in a way that makes both you and your customers feel good. Make your products work as advertised. Educate your customers. So there is no need to go to an ‘alternative’ surgeon to have your brain removed.

Well, either that, or sell items on eBay.. Say that you only accept Paypal. When the auction has ended, and you have the winner's E-Mail address, mail them something like,

"Hello.

I will not be accepting your payment because the item that you won is a complete scam. It does not have any 'magical' properties to it, because there is not such thing as magic.

I apologize for the inconvenience to you, but I am doing this as a way for people to reevaluate their blind trust in things such as this."

...Just an idea.

-Ripley 29

[Ashles]

Originally posted by Ripley Twenty-Nine
Oh, why thank you. I'd like to thank all of the little people who made this possible... etc, etc.

Seriously though, I'm fairly new here and still have hope left.. Give me some time. :)

-Ripley 29
I know, I'm just kidding. I love to dish out my award whenever I can. TheBoyPaj and Dr Adequate have both been recipients so you're in good company. :)

But seriously, people tend to ignore evidence counter to their beliefs.
However, of course it all helps - many people here were once believers in all sorts of things, but gradually came to become more sceptical.

But I'm not sure about the e-bay plan. I would have thought that offering to sell things you have no intention of supplying would get you complaints and banned fairly quickly.

[Ripley Twenty-Nine]

Originally posted by Ashles
But seriously, people tend to ignore evidence counter to their beliefs.
However, of course it all helps - many people here were once believers in all sorts of things, but gradually came to become more sceptical.

I'm optimistic because I was a believer growing up. Every year in grade school my speech topic was something like UFOs, Ghosts, etc, etc. My family was and is very religious. However, I point came when I stopped acting on blind faith and starting questioning everything.. And learning as much as I could about topics that I didn't understand.


But I'm not sure about the e-bay plan. I would have thought that offering to sell things you have no intention of supplying would get you complaints and banned fairly quickly.

Sorry if I made it sound like a 'plan', because it certainly wasn't. More of a topic for discussion and an idea. I'm not naive enough to think that I would actually get away with it!

However, I don't think that it's beyond the realm of possibility to set up a website similar to the Life Technologies one, that looks completely like a store selling this stuff, only the last step in the process does not charge your credit card, but instead sends out an E-Mail like the one I mentioned earlier.

What does everyone think? Would a site like this do some good for the 'cause'?

-Ripley 29

[Ashles]

Originally posted by Ripley Twenty-Nine
I'm optimistic because I was a believer growing up. Every year in grade school my speech topic was something like UFOs, Ghosts, etc, etc.
I was too. I had (still have somewhere) a ton of 'Real' ghost story books, and UFO books.

[Dr Adequate]

Originally posted by Ripley Twenty-Nine
However, I don't think that it's beyond the realm of possibility to set up a website similar to the Life Technologies one, that looks completely like a store selling this stuff, only the last step in the process does not charge your credit card, but instead sends out an E-Mail like the one I mentioned earlier.

What does everyone think? Would a site like this do some good for the 'cause'? Yes. There should be lots of them.

A few years ago (does anyone have references?) someone set up a website ostensibly selling "homeopathic crystals" and filled it with the most arrant pseudoscientific gibble he could think of. He then went onto a believer forum, ripped it apart as pseudoscientific gibble, and then sat back and listened to the impassioned defense of his nonsense put up by people who, obviously, had never tried his nonexistent product, but were just willing to defend anything written in the language of New Age Nonsense against any scientific critique.

[Ashles]

Originally posted by Dr Adequate
Yes. There should be lots of them.

A few years ago (does anyone have references?) someone set up a website ostensibly selling "homeopathic crystals" and filled it wil the most arrant pseudoscientific gibble he could think of. He then went onto a believer forum, ripped it apart as pseudoscientific gibble, and then sat back and listened to the impassioned defense of his nonsense put up by people who, obviously, had never tried his nonexistent product, but were just willing to defend anything written in the language of New Age Nonsense against any scientific critique.
I remember that - that was superb.

Right I'm having a look to see if it's still around...