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"Everything else is just FDA-approved medical quackery. Mind Hack No. 6: "False Flattery" The false flattery mind hack makes us believe we are getting a bargain or that we are in control when, in fact, we're not. It tries to compliment us while stealing our wallet. The implied statement is, "Gee, you must be a really smart consumer." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"In a French treatise published in translation in Philadelphia in 1846, the author indignantly describes such starch-grain adulteration in chocolate, and methods of detecting it (using iodine is one), but then goes on to counsel the use of an even worse additive: medical quackery was far from dead! The ferruginous chocolate, so beneficial to women who are out of order, or have the green sickness, is prepared by adding to the paste of chocolate iron in the state of filings, oxide or carbonate." - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.)

"As gaslight has driven away, in part, the smoky petroleum lamp, and is about to be displaced by electricity, which in the course of time may be supplanted by magnetism, and as the power of steam has caused muscular labor to disappear to a certain extent, and will itself give way before the new vibratory force of Keely, likewise the orthodox medical quackery that now prevails will be dethroned by the employment of the finer forces of nature, such as light, electricity, magnetism, etc." - Theo Paijmans, Free Energy Pioneer: John Worrell Keely (Get the book.)

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