Ridiculous science (was Re: Small rant about cosmetics' ads)

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Neil Ward" <neilward at d...> wrote:
> 
> I'm sorry, I just have this niggly thing about ridiculous science 
in advertising.  How stupid are people to fall for this?
> 
> Neil (yes, I know: I should get out more)

Talking of (psudo) science in the service of cosmetics, I just have 
to tell this tale:
I was at my cosmetician (is that a word?), and she was doing all 
kinds of mildly painful things to me. To take my mind off it, I 
started a conversation about the new laser hair removal machine I 
knew she had just installed. 
I asked her whether it was approved by the Ministry of Health and 
things like that, and then I asked her vaguely  - "is it safe with 
all the radiation and stuff?", to which she (very seriously) replied -
"it's not radiation - it's energy!"

I've told that story about a hundred times, and it just seems funnier 
to me every time. 


Naama