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20 Oct 2012, 11:26 am

http://curesfortinnitushq.com/tinnitus-miracle/

“Former Chronic Tinnitus Sufferer
Reveals The Only Holistic System In
Existence That Will Show You How To
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In Your Ears Within 2 Months, and
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and Former Tinnitus Sufferer Teaches You How To:

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Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible!"



Looks quite fishy to be honest.



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20 Oct 2012, 11:47 am

It's probably BS. They want you to buy something. If it was something that really worked it would be written up in magazines.


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20 Oct 2012, 11:48 am

As soon as someone makes such a bold claim as possessing some "miracle cure" or some "secret" cure "they" don't want you to know about, my bulls**tometer goes off the charts. Especially in these times, when many are struggling to make ends meet, snake-oil salesmen/saleswomen are cropping up everywhere with far-fetched claims that sound all too appealing to those who couldn't afford surgery, prescriptions or doctor visits. You are more than right to feel suspicious.



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20 Oct 2012, 12:47 pm

This is called a quack health product.

Ringing in the ears is a chronic condition which can't be cured. Chronic conditions like this attract quacks, because people who have ringing in their ears, arthritis, etc will be so desperate for relief that they'll figure they have nothing to lose by giving money to the quack. The quack product doesn't work, but there are always new people encountering it for the first time.

There are two big signs of quack products - claiming to cure or relieve a condition which has no medical cure, and selling a product for enough profit to afford infomercials on television or radio.



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20 Oct 2012, 12:57 pm

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20 Oct 2012, 1:28 pm

Sometimes these things work. But the thing is, right, anything you see advertised for money like that, you can find the relevant information online for free. Will it work? Maybe. Maybe not. But if you get the relevant information online how and why something works, you can decide to try the whatever herbs/vitamins/minerals on your own, and if they work, they do, and if they don't, you're not out too much money regardless. Some things are quacky, some things do work.

But generally the things that do work, you can find multiple sources of information about them working, how they work, etc. For example, Rhodiola Rosea is an awesome herb for mental states, and I found graphs showing how exactly how it works, changes in norephrine, epinephrine levels, etc, the person came to the conclusion it acts very much like an SNRI. So to some people, they basically look at herbalism as like, magic, but herbs just contain medicinal things, they contain compounds similar to what you'd get in a regular synthetically made medicine, but in many cases better or having less negative side effects.