Assistance required to debunk pseudo scientific product

powerinsole.com

5 points·injidup··3 comments

The above product does a very good job looking scientific. There are even papers and university departments referenced but the product is clearly woo. It's a shoe inner a sole with a "chip". I made fun of the product on facebook and the owner then got in touch with me. I'm curious if there is any smoking gun here that is easy to point out.

https://www.powerinsole.com https://www.powerinsole.com/science-en/?lang=en

They say "This has a positive effect on the energy field of the cells which, from the outside, encourages a better functioning of the cells."

Yes, this is clearly a fraud. Cells don't work that way.

"The presentation shows individual measured values from three independent tests with 4 samples each."

12 samples is a stupidly low number, and of course there's no information about what they measured, how they measured it, or anything like that. Of course they probably just made up the numbers anyway.

> "This has a positive effect on the energy field of the cells which, from the outside, encourages a better functioning of the cells."

They have gone to extraordinary length to appear being scientific. The paper was researched by

https://www.dartsch-scientific.com/en/

which on further investigation only seems to write papers for woo products.

and they claim partnership with the university of Salzburg and other reputable organisations. To me it feels that somebody has come up with a business model I would call "sci-washing".

I've contacted Uni Salzburg on twitter asking what their relationship is to this company. I'd like to dig this a bit further.

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