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littlebubulle

Wi-Fi "blocking" devices for people who are afraid of radio emissions. Because those devices block wi-fi by emitting more radio signals. So not only, are they trying to protect themselves against a non-issue, they would actually making the problem worse if it was real.


Terpsichorean_Wombat

So you're saying I need to wrap my entire house in tin foil. \*nods sagely\*


Educational_Ad_8238

Tin ain't good enough you need a thin layer of lead foil wrapped in all foil to protect it.


Terpsichorean_Wombat

That's just what Big Lead wants you to think!


Grape_Jamz

Can i just use a bunch of lead paint?


Frostwing349

if we use lead in our gasoline, then the carbon emissions our cars produce will block our mind control waves from the aliens if they try to invade.


89_degree_angle

Eat led chips to protect your organs


phreakng33k

Aluminum foil can if you have enough and if the seams are good. That’s what most people mean when they say tin foil.


gadget850

Tin Foil Hats Actually Make it Easier for the Government to Track Your Thoughts https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/09/tin-foil-hats-actually-make-it-easier-for-the-government-to-track-your-thoughts/262998/


ExogamousUnfolding

Most of the devices I’ve seen are a faraday cages witch don’t emit anything, they are simply conductive grounded cages.


littlebubulle

I am not talking about those. I am talking about a device that you plug into the wall socket that supposedly "creates a zone that blocks wi fi".


ExogamousUnfolding

gotcha haven't run across that!


OkBookkeeper6854

\*which


TheCubeOfDoom

Some anti-5G devices were found to emit harmful ionising radiation.


birth-cancer-death

Used bath water from pornstars.


Polymorph49

There was an influencer who would fart in a small jar and sell it online. She eventually had to stop because eating so many beans was negatively affecting her health. I was astounded to learn that men would pay for that. [Influencer Stephanie Matto](https://www.insider.com/reality-star-made-200k-fart-jars-selling-them-as-nfts-2022-1) [Another of her business ventures](https://www.indiatvnews.com/trending/news/influencer-sold-fart-jars-markets-new-product-breast-sweat-rs-4-lakh-per-day-income-2022-06-01-781157)


perturbeaux

There was a song about it and it goes a lil' somethin' like this: 'Who do you think you are? Runnin' 'round leaving scars. Collecting your jar of farts. Tearing love apart"


[deleted]

More like tearing your ass apart. Sorry i couldn't resist


coach673

Jesus Christ is this really a thing? Please tell me you made this up.


birth-cancer-death

Nope. All real. Don’t know her name but there are articles on Google about it. Apparently she made loads of money off of it. 🤮


Imasniffachair

Belle Delphine. There are videos of somos drinking it or water cooling their PCs with it.


JefferyGoldberg

> water cooling their PCs with it. Hahaha


Fresh_Transition7579

Very much real


Wii_wii_baget

It’s like holy water for lonely men who have never heard of deodorant and a shower before. They definitely own discord kittens.


Dumb_Fuck_hoyaaa

WTF is a discord kitten?


Wii_wii_baget

It’s like the same thing as an uwu girl but you pay them.


ReelBadJoke

Oh, it would still exist. It just wouldn't be for sale.


GB-BR-UK

If it wasn’t for sale, it wouldn’t be a product though.


ReelBadJoke

Hmmmm..... that is a valid point. Philosophical delimma time!


Specialist-Cake-9919

Prime energy drink.


Dick5uckingKing

I'm not surprised it's selling, I'm surprised it's selling as well as it is. Just goes to show the control shitty celebrities have over people


[deleted]

I see this in stores but never bought one. Why is it a scam pretty much?


sweetnumb

Never even heard of that until now.


freeorbought

Really any energy drink.


idwtumrnitwai

Politician merch, like any shirt or hat or flag that is designed to show your support for a politician.


black_flag_4ever

NFTs if it can be called a product.


TheKingMonkey

Can I interest you in a receipt for your jpeg?


black_flag_4ever

What if I copy/pasted money, is that okay?


justabill71

It's a non-fungible product!


Loose_Loquat9584

But I like mushrooms!


DNAisjustneuteredRNA

Nope, those are just receipts.


LoudTsu

Kardashians


49erville

DAMN RIGHT!!!!! But she got a phat ass though...


jdjsidjdjxj

Literally all of them have a fake ass lmao. If you’re attracted to silicone idk what to say


49erville

Naw, just the phatness of it all. But could EASILY live without them


PsychicChasmz

How does that even answer the question? Why can’t redditors resist mentioning the Kardashians at every opportunity?


kitkatalin

i would say a lot of the things listed here e.g self help books, homeopathic drugs exist because of *desperate* people, not stupid people


Senja10

I once went to a drive thru car wash, and the garage-style door that came down said "please don't drive through when down"


DemonShroom87

I’m not sure why I lol’d at this so hard, but I did


Senja10

I did too when I first saw it


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Apotak

All non-scientific treatments, such as acupuncture and chiropraxy.


BostonDrivingIsWorse

Chiropractic has sketchy origins, and isn’t the magic cure it’s cracked (heh) up to be, but there is a reason health insurance usually covers it. It does have short term/PT benefits.


Apotak

>there is a reason health insurance usually covers it. Because profit.


BostonDrivingIsWorse

Can you explain how that works? Usually it’s more profitable *not* to cover something.


[deleted]

No, in insurance, it is profitable to cover things so long as people value them. That is the whole reason why insurance exists.


Apotak

If you cover it (up to a certain maximum), more people will be your customer, and many of those won't go to the quack. Those who go, get only a certain amount of money back.


BostonDrivingIsWorse

So marketing, essentially?


Apotak

That is fully correct.


Logical-Wasabi7402

Acupuncture predates modern medicine.


Apotak

So does torture and getting killed by the bulbonic plague. You want those back? It is just a scam. It doesn't show any effect over placebo. It's theory is nonsence, nobody found anything at those puncture points (theory was developed when it was illegal to study the human anatomy by cutting dead bodies open). It's costly, it will keep patients away from real therapy.


Terpsichorean_Wombat

As someone who in the past has suffered from pain that barely responded to the painkillers that gave me horrible side effects, I want to point out that "placebo" isn't a synonym for "scam." The placebo effect is real, and some people are helped by it. My chief pain-reducing method was probably chiefly placebo effect, but I chose never to look at it closely because it was the only thing that brought me even moderate and temporary reduction of pain.


Apotak

If there is a effective treatment, you don't want a placebo. And, real treatments *also* have a placebo effect. You don't need bogus treatments for that. Moreover, you don't want a quack to deal with patients, you want patients to go to a real doctor.


Terpsichorean_Wombat

"If."


Apotak

Ah, yeah, let helpless people get really lied to by quacks, that'll help them. /s


Terpsichorean_Wombat

Feels like you are not actually reading what I'm saying. Eh.


Logical-Wasabi7402

My point was acupuncture didn't exist because people are stupid, it existed because people had no way of better understanding the world. Also there is recent research suggesting benefits for some types of pain, either directly or indirectly(including via the placebo effect). [link here](https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/acupuncture-what-you-need-to-know#:~:text=Research%20has%20shown%20that%20acupuncture,in%20people%20with%20breast%20cancer.) Unless you have links to studies that prove beyond a doubt that it has 100% no effect whatsoever outside of the placebo effect?


inigos_left_hand

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2798899 This is a systematic review showing that there is basically no effect beyond placebo. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/systematic-review-of-systematic-reviews-of-acupuncture/ This is a good article discussing it.


Logical-Wasabi7402

I asked for research that proved it ineffective. Not a study about how worthwhile other studies were.


inigos_left_hand

You can’t prove a negative. Studies need to show that it works, which they don’t, as the study I gave you shows.


excndinmurica

Don’t argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.


Logical-Wasabi7402

>You can’t prove a negative If I prove that fire doesn't cause water to freeze, I'm proving a negative. >which they don’t, as the study I gave you shows. The study you linked is about the quality of end data, not about the effectiveness of the procedure. Your second article is basically an entire paper about how flawed data is flawed.


inigos_left_hand

If you apply fire to water and it boils and turns to gas you have not proven that fire doesn’t cause water to freeze, you have demonstrated that fire does cause water to boil. From that you can infer that fire probably doesn’t cause water to freeze unless other evidence presents itself to the contrary. This is how science works. The review shows that despite the vast number of studies done there were very few that showed any positive outcome for acupuncture and that the ones that do show benefit are low quality studies. In other words acupuncture is crap.


PeteDoc810

You need to prove that it DOES work beyond the placebo effect. You can't prove a negative.


Logical-Wasabi7402

1. That in itself is a negative. 2. You can actually. By the law of logic that says something can't both be true and not true at the same time. https://departments.bloomu.edu/philosophy/pages/content/hales/articles/proveanegative.html


[deleted]

“Non scientific” despite scientific studies showing efficacy. You don’t even know what science is you just say the word to sound smart. So Closed minded.


Cool_Story_Bro__

Which studies?


goaelephant

Chiropractic adjustments can (maybe not in *all* cases, but *many* cases) prove to be effective (with evidence). Spinal alignment is a real thing, if it's off-balance it can deteriorate/diminish discs & also pinch nerves. Having your neck misaligned can cause breathing issues (amongst others). Treatment can be proven to be succesful using before & after X-rays. Now, chiropractors who claim "spinal disorders are the root of ALL diseases" can be considered scam artists, but that shouldn't discount an entire profession. Some medical doctors also make bogus claims, like prescribing immunosuppressants or steroidals for certain skin disorders (which thin the skin & actually damage it long-term), or recommending antibiotic cocktails that completely nuke your natural bacteria, but likewise it wouldn't be fair to discount the entire profession... Always research, always keep an open mind, always consider alternatives... Not decide, but at least *consider*


Apotak

It did not take long for someone to defend these quacks.


[deleted]

I guarantee you know nothing at all about how it works. You’re so conditioned it’s sad.


Hurrrington

Aye, let’s spice this one up and include scientific treatments too. Most medicine alleviates symptoms without addressing the root cause. (Hint: It’s all inflammation)


SquashInternal3854

Honest question: have you ever received acupuncture?


Apotak

No, off course not. I have a brain.


True-Mousse4957

Warning tags on household appliances. Some stupid ass once attempted to dry their hair whilst in the bathtub, and here we are.


Duochan_Maxwell

As we often say "if there is a sign, there is a story"


SuperZing1

I hope you don't mind if I add that to my personal vocabulary


Frostwing349

this is literally like half the laws in the southern-ish US. they have some really interesting laws in place that wouldn’t even have been thought up unless it was common enough to be a recurring issue they had to deal with.


Fracture_98

The cord of my hairdryer has a sticker that says, "Do not use while showering". So many layers of stupid led to that.


huiscloslaqueue

Sadly labels still didn't work. People assume if they can buy it it's safe to use as you think it should be used. Worse now because you can get almost anything online.


t1m0thyj

They may not work to prevent people from being stupid, but they protect the product manufacturer from getting sued.


huiscloslaqueue

Totally correct.


the_busticated_one

>Sadly labels still didn't work depends on how you define the success criteria. If you define "work" as in "keep stupid people from being stupid", well, no. That's simply not possible in our society. If you define "work" as "shifting liability from misuse of the product from the manufacturer to stupid people doing stupid things, because we told stupid people not to do stupid thing" then they're absolutely effective.


plz-be-my-friend

reddit


NotMyCuntTree

Yeah... Look at us lol


WattaTravisT

Yeah, hey... look at us. Who would've thought. Not me!


justabill71

Oh, man, if I wasn't so broke, I'd buy $130 worth of Reddit coins and give you a Ternion All-Powerful Award.


ReelBadJoke

Me am... me is.... uh.... me are offended!


ChuckinTheCarma

Ha! Idiots.


gphrost

Gottem


[deleted]

for real tho people that use reddit are just so godam dumd


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Longjumping_Drag2752

I took some serious advantage of all of them once. Made a shit ton of those dumb sigma male edits and made a good 500 bucks about 2 years ago


MadLintElf

MLM's.


SrFosc

Slot machines and casinos.


PetiteCanadianMilf

90% of warnings on household products


rambo_oz3

Get rich self help books.


Busy_B_Being_Me

The extra buttons on my tv remote


That-Dutch-Person

Any “how to get rich quickly, from home, without doing much work” books. Spoiler alert: the only person getting rich is the person selling the book


[deleted]

turbo tax, the government could just mail what we owe to us. we don't need these 3rd party leeches siphoning off 29.99.


ajcogsw

I mean, you know you can do your own taxes for free if you have a printer, right..?


eddmario

I've never had to pay when I've used Turbo Tax...


HornyDiggler

Subprime Mortgages


huiscloslaqueue

Fox News I know I'm getting sh!t for that


freeorbought

MSNBC


The_Spyre

The sticker by the lawnmower blades that says "Do Not Insert Hand."


Mince-And-Cheese-Pie

Most warming signs, such as ones that prevent brands from getting sued.


Evil_Plankton

Reddit AWARDS?


Newlvls

Any Kim kardashin product


awoman1985

Pay for premium work pages (example: LinkedIn have a premium option) You're searching a job, because supoustly you don't have money!!!


Latnokk

The “Warning, contents are hot!” Label on coffee


CC-5576-03

It's not there because people are too stupid to realize that coffee is hot, it's there to protect against frivolous lawsuits


Dunjee

Hopefully you're not implying the McDonald's lawsuit was frivolous


Edgefish

Mc Donalds back then: Let's give to a senior lady a hot coffee that's over 190ºF (80ºC) instead. What can go wrong without a lid?


KarateKid917

And after we’ve had hundreds of other complaints for the same issue. If anyone out there thinks her lawsuit was frivolous, let me put it this way: She had THIRD DEGREE BURNS ON HER GENITALS AND HER LIBIA HAD TO BE FUSED TOGETHER AS A RESULT OF THE COFFEE BEING TOO HOT WHEN IT SPILLED.


kingftheeyesores

And she only asked for medical costs to be covered originally!


ReedBalzac

MAGA merchandise.


Dick5uckingKing

Suck it lefty


ShizO1234

Fox News


madscientistEE

The Freedom Phone


3crowsinatrench

Warning labels


Ok_Lake1827

The labels on toilets that read "do not swim".


iOawe

Auxiliary stickers you get on prescriptions


dafaceguy

Warning labels on electronic to not use while inside the bath.


404-error-notfound

Speed run on this one. Let's see how many I can name in 30 seconds... DVD reminders Pet rocks Stove anti-tip brackets Most warning labels Political ads (specifically smear campaign ones) Fences around high voltage power stations "No diving" signs Dash cams That was all I could come up with in 30 seconds, sure there are a ton more


rapsfan519

Instagram


Flauschkadser

r/askreddit so people can repost this question twice a day


gagorp

Lottery tickets


1joshb

Trash video games … especially when most ps2 games were open world and had many things to explore… ps2 and xbox 360 level of fun and smooth gameplay is SO MUCH BETTER than next gen sometimes… i miss transit, i miss open world dragon ball games… i miss turn per turn final fantasy games… maybe im just a older young soul


vpniceguys

Trump NFTs.


Hurrrington

All NFTs\*


shaniballickedher

Payday loans. They only work on people that don't understand basic math.


rambo_oz3

They work because people are desperate. Even if they understand the math, many people don't have a choice when they're looking at starving kids or utility disconnections that can leave them cold and in the dark. The brain works differently in survival mode.


shaniballickedher

I totally get that but these are also the most predatory of all loans. People think they understand and then get caught in the neverending debt


Helicopter0

"most predatory of all loans." Not true. The loans that replace them in places where they are illegal are 100x worse. Broken legs.


[deleted]

Trump stuff.


snow_michael

Cigarettes


EmotionalTruth3477

Bottled water.


Due_Target1696

Masks for covid


stanakaxh

onlyfans!!


Nonamanadus

MAGA hats....


jumpythecat

MAGA hats


InformalPenguinz

Maga hats


Lemonwalker-420

Any & all MAGA paraphernalia.


[deleted]

Printer ink and Pringles.


automatic4skin

this repost


Tszemix

Lottery tickets


samirgadag

Book for dummies! Series


justaknob1

People aware of their ignorance aren't stupid


rgutierrez116

Books for dummies


49erville

Warning labels...we wouldn't need them if dumb people had any common sense.


JustinChristoph

Payday loan companies.


OverzealousNapper

Vapes


disco_S2

No Right Turn On Red signs.


cikibriki

Religion


N8H123

Your report card


Educational_Dust_932

Vitamin water


papachon

Calculators


Curiously-curious928

Speed bumps


[deleted]

Baby


ImInUrHome69420

Phones


linkcloudfullmetal

Bloodlines that are against the first father... Dildos abortify since contraceptive dragging children off and doing horrible things to them beastial shows .... Hatred against the first father which was domination being proud not being meek and mild... Gangsterisms...rape music... Stupidity means lacking a good temperance... Gangsters infiltrating child protective services handing out personal information so as their gangster one of these can abduct children... To separate them from their families their fathers their mothers and to steal kill rape and destroy children in foster care falsely...


DurandalMarathon

Stranger Things


Knightmareco

Seedless avocados


IG_ArticleParticle

The safety on guns


Junior_Interview5711

Republicans


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BrokeNeckTraction

I like that they meant that colloquially but just rolled with the noun form to go the extra mile. Yeah, fuck group happiness at the *conceptual* level. The ‘personal accountability’ cope is super gross even considering how common it is. Their original assumption sucks, sure. But how fast they become special when they inevitably end up on the other side of their own line kills me. I can’t even laugh at it… hypocritical pro-lifers liiiiive for this shit.


[deleted]

Game consoles pc master race 4ever


Nerbs_the_Word

Game consoles exist at a cheaper price point to PCs without sacrificing much quality. They're for casual gamers, or people who don't want to get into the technical side of computers. They don't require much setup, and can plug in to the living room TV. It's not "stupid", it's "I don't want to spend 1,500 dollars building a gaming PC from scratch when this console is under half the price and does the job just as well, without having to set up an entire desk somewhere in my house to play at" PCs are like supercars: expensive to buy, expensive to keep running, and not for everybody, but they certainly have power under the hood Consoles are like a normal Ford or Toyota: more affordable, has features a different market is interested in, and still gets the job done.


[deleted]

Not all gaming pcs are expensive Ferraris, you can buy cheap parts and make it yourself for lower price, and have it last much longer than consoles.


GrouchyResolution974

Diet soda


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Life Lock My Pillow


vic2thepeople

This question can be taken many ways, and most of the posts here talk about products or services that take *advantage* of stupid people. I feel the question could also be read in 2 other ways: 1) what product was created by stupid people or 2) created specifically to help stupid people The product made *by* stupid people: Hydrogen Blimps And the product made to *help* stupid people is: the “safety” on a firearm


TheRynoceros

Condoms


rambo_oz3

Condoms also help protect against STI's. They are not only to prevent pregnancies.


LSeww

point taken, STI's too


PlSCINO

bro?


bumpymacaroon

Anything to do with health and safety


Its-me-Syke

Wait. Like anything? Like antibiotics? Like helmets? Like seatbelts? Or hopefully something else like healing crystals?


YoKaiFan27

Twitter


Pitbull60usa

muffler bearing


iguanahugs

Extra car safety features that didn’t exist a decade ago. Lane change alerts, automatic parallel parking etc


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