Freakin Scam Artists!

[NAKID]

http://gizmodo.com/5039055/kinoki-footpads-are-stained-with-lies-and-shame-not-body-toxins

Kinoki Footpads Are Stained with Lies and Shame, Not Body Toxins
Sarah Varney of NPR's "All Things Considered" tested out the Kinoki body-detoxifying footpads currently making the rounds of late-night infomercials, to see if they really eliminate "heavy metals and metabolic waste." She and her husband used them for a night, and by the next morning the pads were covered in disgusting black gunk, as advertised. But then she took them to a lab for chemical analysis to learn exactly what was going on. The results? The Kinoki footpads are a dirty scam.

The adhesive footpads use bamboo vinegar and an unspecified combination of herbs and minerals to draw out toxins through your feet while you sleep, supposedly resulting in the gross-looking muddle you see when you peel them off. But when John Goyette at the Curtis and Tompkins Lab used nitric acid to measure the metallic levels in the two used pads and one fresh pad, he found that they "look like three of the same sample, basically." No heavy metals, no lighter metals: There was no significant difference, chemically speaking, between the samples. The $30-per-month pads are, definitively, just another shifty case of new-age snake oil, like the master cleanse or "recycling."

It turns out the Kinoki product is activated by either heat or moistureâ€"the pads turned into the dirty "used" state even when held over a steaming pot of harmless water! Our bodies have a pretty efficient ways to get rid of metabolic waste; usually, you can even read the paper while it happens. Either way, waste definitely doesn't emanate through the skin of your feet while you slumber, or my Mighty Morphin Power Rangers footie PJs would've been tossed out long ago.

[He Man]

Thats true with 50% of the "medicinal remedies to aging" in asia. Crafty with the chemsitry.

[NAKID]

Not that I ever would have bought (or purchased for that matter) that crap, it's amazing the leangth that some people will go to to make a quick buck...

[herm]

What did PT Barnum say?
something about a sucker being born every minute....

[Popeye the Sailor]

What did PT Barnum say?
something about a sucker being born every minute....

I think it was "See the egress-50 cents!"

My personal fav 

[Monstermash]

Caveat Emptor

[erkishhorde]

http://gizmodo.com/5039055/kinoki-footpads-are-stained-with-lies-and-shame-not-body-toxins

Um... Did you actually try that stuff? 

[KnightofNi]

the pads turned into the dirty "used" state even when held over a steaming pot of harmless water!

harmless water? didn't they see the youtube video the lady made where rainbows were appearing in the water coming from her sprinkler?


there's harmful pollutants oozing from our water and oxygen supply

[Pakhan]

Don't feel bad aboot the pads my freend.  I will help you happy day.  I was the former Prime Minister of Nigeria and I have bank account with many millions of dollars, but don't have anyone I can trust.  You seem like trusting person and I would like to share these funds with you.  Send me a check for $5,000 as a release payment for funds to be transfered to you.  After your check clears I will mail check to you and divide the funds with you upon my arrival to the US.

[OwnyTony]

Don't feel bad aboot the pads my freend.  I will help you happy day.  I was the former Prime Minister of Nigeria and I have bank account with many millions of dollars, but don't have anyone I can trust.  You seem like trusting person and I would like to share these funds with you.  Send me a check for $5,000 as a release payment for funds to be transfered to you.  After your check clears I will mail check to you and divide the funds with you upon my arrival to the US.

Im very trusting myself.  I thought the process to clear a sum that large was somewhere near $10,000.  $5,000 is a BARGAIN!  Where do I send the check?

[erkishhorde]

Don't feel bad aboot the pads my freend.  I will help you happy day.  I was the former Prime Minister of Nigeria and I have bank account with many millions of dollars, but don't have anyone I can trust.  You seem like trusting person and I would like to share these funds with you.  Send me a check for $5,000 as a release payment for funds to be transfered to you.  After your check clears I will mail check to you and divide the funds with you upon my arrival to the US.

You grammar and spelling are too good to be a former Prime Minister of Nigeria. 

[NAKID]

Um... Did you actually try that stuff? 

Not that I ever would have bought (or purchased for that matter) that crap, it's amazing the leangth that some people will go to to make a quick buck...

[He Man]

lair lair pants on fireeeee 

[KnightofNi]

lair lair pants on fireeeee 

my lair doesn't have pants, nor do i have specific "lair pants" that i wear when there

[scienceiscool]

as a basic rule, anything marketed as "detoxifying" is bs.  what particular toxins are you talking about?  do you have evidence these toxins A) are harmful and B) can be reduced using your method?  wtf is "heavy metals and metabolic waste" supposed to mean?