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Author Archives: Ryan Haupt
Anit-Viral Ads: Lucky Strikes
Advertisements upset me. They seem designed to appeal to the misinformed, uninformed, or gullible; preying upon every emotional and logical weakness they can find. I often find myself insulted on behalf of humanity that the people behind these schemes think / read more…
Posted in Health
Tagged in adverstisement / cigarettes / lucky strike / mad men
Anti-Viral Ad Supplement: Spam Is Not Always A Scam
I’m feeling under the weather today so I’m not up to my usual anti-advertisement tirade. However, since our Overlord Dunning has made it clear by example that a totally valid blog post can be made up of links to other / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / Health / Urban Legends
Tagged in black market pharmacy / drugs / e-mail / presciptions / sick / spam
Anti-Viral Ads: HD Vision Sunglasses
Advertisements upset me. They seem designed to appeal to the misinformed, uninformed, or gullible; preying upon every emotional and logical weakness they can find. I often find myself insulted on behalf of humanity that the people behind these schemes think / read more…
Posted in Technology / TV & Media
Tagged in advertisement / hd / hd vision / silly / sunglasses
Anti-Viral Ads: DirecTV Genie
Advertisements upset me. They seem designed to appeal to the misinformed, uninformed, or gullible; preying upon every emotional and logical weakness they can find. I often find myself insulted on behalf of humanity that the people behind these schemes think / read more…
Posted in Technology / TV & Media
Tagged in advertising / cable / DirecTV / DVR / fraction / genie / math / space / tv
Anti-Viral Ads: 5-hour ENERGY
Advertisements upset me. They seem designed to appeal to the misinformed, uninformed, or gullible; preying upon every emotional and logical weakness they can find. I often find myself insulted on behalf of humanity that the people behind these schemes think / read more…
Posted in Health / TV & Media
Tagged in 5-hour energy / advertisement / consumer protection / misinformation
Quack Medicine Fakeout: Chiropodist
Back in May I found myself strolling the streets of London just observing the madness that is that city. And while out and about I spied a sign that made my skepticism gland secrete, so I snapped a photo and / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / Health
Comic ‘The Big Lie’ Delivers Just That
Quick note before you dive in: I’m a big time comic nerd, so when possible I’ll use comics to inform about skepticism, which is what I attempted in the following post. This was originally posted on my personal blog, The / read more…
Posted in Conspiracy Theories
Tagged in 9/11 / comics / free speech
An Introduction… Sort Of
A little while ago Mr. Dunning sent out the call for potential bloggers for some hair-brained pyramid scheme he’d concocted. Now I barely have time to keep up with my own blogs (which can be found at paleocave.com and livingthescilife.tumblr.com), but / read more…
Posted in Cool Stuff
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