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Not Getting Scammed

Posted by slung under Lifehacking
zen-garden In order to get a lot out of life, you need to not waste your energy on things that enrich others, serve no useful purpose to you, and consume not only your cash, but also your hard-earned time to evaluate and consume.I get particularly offended by people who sell “complementary therapies” that have been subjected to clinical testing and have been proven to have no effect.  Especially when these therapies are recommended as alternatives to the traditional therapies that have proven benefits that have been rigorously (by which I mean accurately) tested and verified.

For example, acupuncture as a cure for AIDS.  If the very concept of such a thing doesn’t offend you, or if you think “yeah, why not?”, then this post is probably not for you.

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