Introducing the Quantum Pendant – The Miracle Cure for Everything!
Posted: February 9, 2011 Filed under: Refutations | Tags: Quackery 12 Comments »Take a look at this site:
The company is selling Quantum Pendants (and related products), which they claim are able to cure everything from inflammation to diabetes, energize healthy cells while simultaneously killing cancer cells through "scalar energy". Now why does that remind me so much of chi healing and chakras?
What you’re looking at is a form of quackery that is really popular in Malaysia aka our equivalent of homeopathy. FusionExcel market their products through referrals, pyramid schemes, fake demonstrations etc., which is expected from companies selling deceptive products. As expected, they use lots of testimonials and fake scientific reports to increase credibility for their products.
Look, FusionExcel makes me sick. They’re selling a product with no benefits to unsuspecting customers at a high price, while getting awarded as the Asia Pacific Super Excellent Brand 2008 and the 4th Malaysia Power Brand Award 2010! In fact, I was one of their victims too. Ugh.
Let’s review their claims in more detail.
Quantum Pendants Cure Everything. No, really.
Source: FusionExcel
Every Quantum Pendant has the following qualities:
- Wellness Value
- Intrinsic Value
- Intrinsic Value
FusionExcel’s Quantum Pendant is made from natural minerals that are fused and structurally bonded together at a molecular level. It produces scalar energy that helps to enhance the body’s biofield. The Quantum Pendant promotes positive flow of energy and helps to maintain energy balance. It helps to restore energy that has become weak in the body. By restoring the energy balance in the body this pendant helps one to maintain health and well-being.
Hmm, so their Quantum Pendant has Wellness Value, and Intrinsic Value * 2! Just like Pokémon! They also say that it is made out of “natural minerals” bonded together molecularly. Yeah, and so is that burger you’re eating. And what is scalar energy? Why haven’t I heard of it from physicists anywhere except from your site? And is the biofield a biological electromagnetic field or some other mysterious force? Oh, and last time I heard, the energy in your body is refuelled through carbs, fats, and protein.
Now on to the alleged health benefits of the Quantum Pendant:
- Reduces inflammation
- Enhances blood circulation
- Enhances immune and endocrine systems
- Enhances cellular nutrition and detoxification
- Enhances cellular permeability
- Increases energy
- Has the ability to destroy viruses and bacteria
- Helps to protect DNA from damage
- Helps to retard the aging process & Helps to fight cancer cells
- Strengthens the body’s biofield
- Preventing electro-magnetic waves from affecting one’s health
- Increases focus and concentration
I guess doctors should lose their jobs now that a pendant is all one needs to achieve good health. And speaking of “preventing electromagnetic waves”, does it block visible light too?
Laugh at will at the sheer stupidity of those claims, but unfortunately this bullshido still managed to fool the average Joe (including me 2 years ago).
Regardless, in the following posts I will refute and expose each of their claims. For now, let’s hear your thoughts on this!
* If anyone is interested, here’s their Income Plan.
I have one inside my drawer!
indeed those claims are crap.
science is under attack, as claimed by Sir Paul Nurse.
people nowadays simply come up with their own claims and empirical science and logic are being ditched away.
is this supposed result from scientific education of modern day?
Well firstly, I admit that our scientific curriculum doesn’t really emphasize the most crucial part of science – the scientific method. Only when thinking this way can someone truly claim that he/she is a student of science. It’s more about memorizing facts.
Also, many people are too easily convinced by pseudoscience. They do not review products critically and just accept what the companies say. This is another problem.
Hey Darren. A very nice post. People will believe anything, will they not?
Yes they will.
And what do I believe? I believe I will blog about the Quantum Pendant very, very soon. There is so much blog fodder out there, it boggles the mind.
Hope you’re well.
Paul
Yeah, pardon for the late reply. Anyway, can’t wait to see your thoughts on this!
Hi Darren. Just wanted to drop you a line and let you know that WfS has made in onto psnt.net’s list of Ten Most Irresistibly Brilliant Blogs. With plenty of daylight to spare.
Thanks for what you do.
Paul Wallace
Thanks, Paul!
Hi, I am from Australia.
How do you know that these pendants work or not?
Have you, like a TRUE scientist would, done a thorough-going comprehensive research project to find out?
A research project beginning without ANY a-priori presumptions about what is real or possible. Such open ended free enquiry is how the METHOD of scientific research/investigation is really done.
The answer is of course no!
Which means that you are not at all a “sketptic” but a TRUE BELIEVER in the DOCTRINE of scientific materialism (scientism). Your entire site is saturated with the odious self-righteousness of a TRUE BELIEVER
That having been said please check out these references on the topic of science as a method of open-ended free enquiry, the Doctrine of Scientism (to which you subscribe), and Reality altogether.
http://www.aboutadidam.org/lesser_alternatives/scientific_materialism/reductionism.html
http://www.adidam.org/teaching/aletheon/truth-science.aspx The Truth About Science
http://www.dabase.org/christmc2.htm Einstein meets Jesus
http://www.dabase.org/spacetim.htm Space-Time IS Love-Bliss
http://www.dabase.org/s-atruth.htm Reality & the Middle – on the nature of Conscious Light (scroll down for essay)
http://www.aboutadidam.org/readings/transcending_the_camera/index.html The Bright Reality Beyond & Prior to Point of View (Artists Statement)
Last time I heard, to make an claim of any sort, one has too provide evidence to back it up. The company sells this product as if it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread, and yet fails to provide any evidence to back their claims up, instead using testimonials and scientific-sounding terms to make the Quantum series of products look legitimate. I have no reason to believe in whatever they say.
That said, all the links you provided come from a certain guy called Avatar Adi Da Samraj. Sounds like you do believe in the teachings of a certain guy. And yet you accuse me of subscribing to the Doctrine of Scientism? Funny.
As you say, I think its important to provide scientific proof for what you say, including that something is 100% bullshit. Listen, I don’t care about the quantum pendants, they are probably garbage, but doing the smallest amount of research on negative ion therapy will actually show you a wealth of research proving its efficacy on many things in rats, and a few things in humans including depression and SAD. Considering that the quantum pendant makers claim negative ions are one of the mechanisms of action, I think they have SOME legitimacy there, not absolutely none as you say. I’d like to point out that doctors use lithium for treating bipolar disorder without having any idea what its mechanism of action is. Just because its without explaination doesn’t mean its laughably wrong. You sound really arrogant and like anything that you haven’t heard before or isn’t prescribed by doctors in our country is a complete sham, but I work in the medical field and I can tell you that we know much less than doctors pretend and the average joe tends to believe. There are so many mysteries and unexplained quirks. We are finding out new things every day.
Try to be more humble and less of an ass.
this is coming from someone who thinks the stupid pendants sound like garbage, who doesn’t believe in any homeopathy or even the efficacy of most vitamin supplements, who has degrees in biology, but also actually has an ear to the ground to real SCIENCE being done in academic journals. You can search them for free actually, its not that hard to do subscribe to the scientific method you conveniently discard whenever it suits you.
I bought a pendant as well,,for experimental purposes as I do quite alot of such, perhaps to the point of insanity even, But I have and do learn alot, more then you might think. As to if the pendant works,,no idea really, I wear it some and dont some to see if I can feel a difference. At first I felt something negative about it,,later it varied, conclusion still no real idea either way. I am feeling better, but I also am trying other experiments on myself as well at the time. What others you might ask,,for example,,ingesting minute amounts of a type of mineral rock, which easily grinds into a powder,which may or may not have calcium,zinc or magnesium in it, or other types of minerals. As I said Im feeling better,,be it the mineral,,or the pendant no idea yet. And Yes Ive tried magnesium,zinc and calcium pills from the store,,oddly they never seemed to help me feel any better. Maybe there is something more to natural mineral stones then is known,,or maybe not. My motto–Id rather be my own guinea pig,,then be someone elses!–
i undergo orif tibia and ankle surgery last sept. i have a plate about 12 inches and 15 screws… i took several supplements and vitamins,i even eat more fruits and vegetables but it still my bones still nonunion till my 5th weeks and i can’t walk. on my 7th week my neighbor allow me to borrow her scalar pendant i guess it helps i don’t know how now am in 10th week i start to walk 70% and i can stand longer than before. wthout crutch in short distance but for longer walk i still use 1 crutch because normally tibia fracture healing time is 6 months on ward. i guess it helps in my recovery.. first unexplainable my confidence develop i was afraid before to go out i dont know how to walk on stairs using crutches….since i wore it i started to go out everymorning to get a sun energy.
I dont think it has any bad effects. Infact I sleep better now and I have gained more energy. I no more get headaches and I think its good.