“When I started making enough money to afford high-end, fancy skincare products with sexy bottles and impressive claims, I decided to give them a try. As a result my skin acted up and got irritated. I think sometimes women may be overcleansing their skin. Some products and masks can be too aggressive and irritating for certain skin types. I believe the more simple, natural, and easy the skin care regime, the better off your skin will be.” ThinkingGivingTryingBelieveMayEndsSometimesEnoughCareCertainI BelieveEasyNaturalSimpleResultsProductsTypeDecidedSkinsClaimsSexyFancyMaskBottlesAggressiveRegimesBetter OffImpressiveIrritatingIrritatedSkin Care Author:Jennifer Aniston
“Massage therapists, and others in the holistic arts ... seem to be a particularly gullible bunch. And there are a lot of people who have seized upon that, and marketed their products, their classes, their modalities, and their wild claims to us ... and many of us have fallen for it, hook, line and sinker ... and unfortunately, gone on to convince our clients to buy into it, as well. ... Our profession has turned into the snake oil medicine show.” PeopleWellsArtShowsSeemsPainLinesClassGoneProductsClaimsMedicineOilProfessionBunchTherapyFallenInjuryConvinceClientsSnakesHookTherapistsHolisticMassageGullibleMassage Therapists Author:Laura Allen
“One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist... What those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. The absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.” WayFeelsShouldMeanStatesEvilPoliticsRealizingNaturalExistenceEconomyProductsClaimsPropertyNotionAbsenceLiberalismConcentrationOwnershipTheftIdeologicalPrivate Property Author:Daniel Patrick Moynihan
“The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's history into the biblical span of a few thousand years; their unwillingness to abandon claims clearly disproved, including the assertion that all fossils are products of Noah's flood; and their reliance upon distortion, misquote, half-quote, and citation out of context to characterize the ideas of their opponents.” NeedsYearsIdeasStoriesEarthReligionOrderThreeHalfAtheismEventsProductsThousandMajorsArgumentMiracleClaimsIncludingOpponentsAbandonCollapseBiblicalFloodThousand YearsFossilsRelianceLiteralAssertionGenesisDistortionInvokeOf ContextCitations Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“...Only the big food manufacturers have the wherewithal to secure FDA-approved health claims for their products and then trumpet them to the world. Generally, it is the products of modern food science that make the boldest health claims, and these are often founded on incomplete and often bad science.” WorldBigsModernProductsClaimsSecureIncompleteTrumpetsApprovedFda Book:Food Rules: An Eater's Manual Source: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
“Companies watch what consumers are doing like a hawk. Just as one letter to a politician can signal an insipient problem, for companies, a trend where people are beginning to switch away from one of their key products to a rival offering on the basis of either claims or real improvements on performance, that's significant.” PeopleRealProblemCompanyWatchesProductsKeysPoliticianLettersPerformancesBasesClaimsImprovementSignificantConsumersTrendsOfferingSignalsRivalsHawks Author:John Elkington
“Anyone believing the TPP is good for Americans take note: The foreign subsidiaries of U.S.-based corporations could just as easily challenge any U.S. government regulation they claim unfairly diminishes their profits - say, a regulation protecting American consumers from unsafe products or unhealthy foods, investors from fraudulent securities or predatory lending, workers from unsafe working conditions, taxpayers from another bailout of Wall Street, or the environment from toxic emissions.” BelieveGovernmentChallengesEnvironmentStreetsConditionsSecurityProductsWallClaimsNotesWorkersProfitConsumersCorporationsInvestorsToxicRegulationDiminishTaxpayersUnhealthyEmissionsLendingUnsafeHealthy FoodPredatoryGovernment RegulationBailoutsWorking ConditionsUnhealthy Food Author:Robert Reich
“Now the cigarette companies claim that they don't do that [ pay to have their product advertised in movies ] anymore, although it certainly makes you wonder a bit when an independent production like "In The Bedroom", you know, seems to focus constantly on Marlboros and almost it turns into a Marlboro ad, whether there was any money exchanged.” KnowsSeemsTurnsBitsPayCompanyWonderFocusProductsClaimsIndependentProductionsAdsCigaretteBedroom Author:Joe Eszterhas