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No, thank you! Austria has a weird thing with pseudoscience scams [0][1][2] and it needs to be dealt with. [0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belebtes_Wasser h

No, thank you! Austria has a weird thing with pseudoscience scams [0][1][2] and it needs to be dealt with. [0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belebtes_Wasser https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belebtes_Wasser [1] The current Minister of Economy was working as an "energizer" https://www.diepresse.com/5395317/wirtschaftsministerin-schrambock-war-energetikerin https://www.diepresse.com/5395317/wirtschaftsministerin-schr... [2] During the construction of a hospital in Vienna, an "energetic" ring was built around the construction site for 95000 Euro. https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000076199184/krankenhaus-wien-nord-95-000-euro-fuer-energetischen-schutzring https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000076199184/krankenhaus-w... among others

biztos 5y ago
Wow, that water looks amazing! Is anybody using it to brew bulletproof coffee[0]? [0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/style/the-cult-of-the-bulletproof-coffee-diet.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/style/the-cult-of-the-bul...
injidup 5y ago
@OriginalNebula There is also this https://www.air-innovation.fr/en/produit/vague-de-bien-etre-geowave/ https://www.air-innovation.fr/en/produit/vague-de-bien-etre-... and were installed into hospitals in austria at great cost https://www.salzburg24.at/news/salzburg/wo-in-salzburg-noch-geowaves-installiert-wurden-58062319 https://www.salzburg24.at/news/salzburg/wo-in-salzburg-noch-... Unsurprisingly the owner of powerinsole a Mr Martin Masching is also involved in this enterprise via https://geowave-shop.at/epages/c0f45b90-03b3-4b2d-8e1d-55912ea0a750.sf/en_US/?ObjectPath=/Shops/c0f45b90-03b3-4b2d-8e1d-55912ea0a750/Categories/Seite__Kategorie1 https://geowave-shop.at/epages/c0f45b90-03b3-4b2d-8e1d-55912...
- OriginalNebula 5y ago
  I think its time you contact some investigative journalists with this Powerinsole/Geowave connection. https://twitter.com/florianklenk https://twitter.com/florianklenk klenk@falter.at https://twitter.com/ThomasWalach https://twitter.com/ThomasWalach redaktion@zackzack.at https://twitter.com/mnikbakhsh https://twitter.com/mnikbakhsh nikbakhsh.michael@profil.at https://twitter.com/ukschmid https://twitter.com/ukschmid
read_if_gay_ 5y ago
Meanwhile I'm trying to launch a simple health related mobile app and it's an absolutely insurmountable amount of paperwork for a solo dev.
- jahnu 5y ago
  One "hack" to get around that is to change your health app into a "beauty" or "cosmetic" or "wellness" app. It's a very different set of regulations.
  - read_if_gay_ 5y ago
    Yep, I'd love to do that, but I'm squarely in the health sector, no getting around that sadly. I might end up cutting some of the main features to qualify as a lifestyle app though. Sad but better than not launching I guess.
    - oezi 5y ago
      Everything is dependent on your intended use. If you don't intend health use but just research etc then you are fine.
jahnu 5y ago
Not to mention almost all pharmacies selling homeopathic rubbish. I find this particularly irritating given the ridiculously regulations and control around things like buying paracetamol or ibuprofen.
- Tabular-Iceberg 5y ago
  Medical and ethical standards are in complete free fall in European pharmacies. I was told by my vet to rinse my dog’s eyes in sterile isotonic saline solution. When I went to the pharmacy to ask for it they didn’t know what it was. They suggested using chlorhexidine wound disinfectant instead. My poor dog would have probably been blind or worse if I had taken the advice. But they don’t care, they just want to move products, whatever the cost.
  - AlbertCory 5y ago
    I sympathize, and good for you for not doing it! If I can suggest something to look into (i.e. not recommend!): I use NeilMed sinus rinse which is just saline and bicarbonate (so pH balanced). Use distilled water to mix it. You can buy it at most drugstores. This is not sterile unless you sterilize everything, but at least there are no funky chemicals.
    - Tabular-Iceberg 5y ago
      Thanks. I’m sure regular table salt and googling the concentration would have done the trick, but there’s something to be said for those 30 ml plastic vials you break off a ribbon that you know have the right stuff and is sterile and stays that way until you use it. I don’t want to take risks with things I don’t have enough knowledge to make them calculated risks. But it worries me when some of the people we defer to wouldn’t even pass high school chemistry. After having checked five pharmacies with nobody having heard of it the vet took pity on me and gave me a handful out of their supply closet.
      - AlbertCory 5y ago

biztos 5y ago

Wow, that water looks amazing! Is anybody using it to brew bulletproof coffee[0]? [0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/style/the-cult-of-the-bulletproof-coffee-diet.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/style/the-cult-of-the-bul...

injidup 5y ago

@OriginalNebula There is also this https://www.air-innovation.fr/en/produit/vague-de-bien-etre-geowave/ https://www.air-innovation.fr/en/produit/vague-de-bien-etre-... and were installed into hospitals in austria at great cost https://www.salzburg24.at/news/salzburg/wo-in-salzburg-noch-geowaves-installiert-wurden-58062319 https://www.salzburg24.at/news/salzburg/wo-in-salzburg-noch-... Unsurprisingly the owner of powerinsole a Mr Martin Masching is also involved in this enterprise via https://geowave-shop.at/epages/c0f45b90-03b3-4b2d-8e1d-55912ea0a750.sf/en_US/?ObjectPath=/Shops/c0f45b90-03b3-4b2d-8e1d-55912ea0a750/Categories/Seite__Kategorie1 https://geowave-shop.at/epages/c0f45b90-03b3-4b2d-8e1d-55912...

OriginalNebula 5y ago
I think its time you contact some investigative journalists with this Powerinsole/Geowave connection. https://twitter.com/florianklenk https://twitter.com/florianklenk klenk@falter.at https://twitter.com/ThomasWalach https://twitter.com/ThomasWalach redaktion@zackzack.at https://twitter.com/mnikbakhsh https://twitter.com/mnikbakhsh nikbakhsh.michael@profil.at https://twitter.com/ukschmid https://twitter.com/ukschmid

read_if_gay_ 5y ago

Meanwhile I'm trying to launch a simple health related mobile app and it's an absolutely insurmountable amount of paperwork for a solo dev.

jahnu 5y ago
One "hack" to get around that is to change your health app into a "beauty" or "cosmetic" or "wellness" app. It's a very different set of regulations.
- read_if_gay_ 5y ago
  Yep, I'd love to do that, but I'm squarely in the health sector, no getting around that sadly. I might end up cutting some of the main features to qualify as a lifestyle app though. Sad but better than not launching I guess.
  - oezi 5y ago
    Everything is dependent on your intended use. If you don't intend health use but just research etc then you are fine.

jahnu 5y ago

Not to mention almost all pharmacies selling homeopathic rubbish. I find this particularly irritating given the ridiculously regulations and control around things like buying paracetamol or ibuprofen.

Tabular-Iceberg 5y ago
Medical and ethical standards are in complete free fall in European pharmacies. I was told by my vet to rinse my dog’s eyes in sterile isotonic saline solution. When I went to the pharmacy to ask for it they didn’t know what it was. They suggested using chlorhexidine wound disinfectant instead. My poor dog would have probably been blind or worse if I had taken the advice. But they don’t care, they just want to move products, whatever the cost.
- AlbertCory 5y ago
  I sympathize, and good for you for not doing it! If I can suggest something to look into (i.e. not recommend!): I use NeilMed sinus rinse which is just saline and bicarbonate (so pH balanced). Use distilled water to mix it. You can buy it at most drugstores. This is not sterile unless you sterilize everything, but at least there are no funky chemicals.
  - Tabular-Iceberg 5y ago
    Thanks. I’m sure regular table salt and googling the concentration would have done the trick, but there’s something to be said for those 30 ml plastic vials you break off a ribbon that you know have the right stuff and is sterile and stays that way until you use it. I don’t want to take risks with things I don’t have enough knowledge to make them calculated risks. But it worries me when some of the people we defer to wouldn’t even pass high school chemistry. After having checked five pharmacies with nobody having heard of it the vet took pity on me and gave me a handful out of their supply closet.
    - AlbertCory 5y ago