{"id":284994,"date":"2010-02-05T16:30:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T21:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=11172"},"modified":"2010-02-05T16:30:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T21:30:24","slug":"snake-oil-salesmen-shouldn%e2%80%99t-meet-dragons-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/284994","title":{"rendered":"Snake oil salesmen shouldn\u2019t meet dragons | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t watch the show <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dragons%27_Den#Canada\">Dragon&#8217;s Den<\/a>, though I&#8217;ve heard of it: potential entrepreneurs pitch their products to a group of wealthy investors in the hope that they will get some capital. The investors &#8212; the dragons &#8212; are blunt when they need to be, and it does make for an interesting show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; especially when the guy who comes in pitching his wares is an alt-med quack <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FHL6L9i2AWA\">who says his bottle of water will cure everything from pink eye to leukemia to cancer<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embeddedvideo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FHL6L9i2AWA&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/iframe><\/center><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>Too bad ultradistilled water doesn&#8217;t cure vulturism. That guy looks pretty unhappy as he left, but he was treated very nicely indeed compared to what he deserves.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/JctqO49m2-pa4bZOx5fQsEsLpbc\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/JctqO49m2-pa4bZOx5fQsEsLpbc\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/JctqO49m2-pa4bZOx5fQsEsLpbc\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/JctqO49m2-pa4bZOx5fQsEsLpbc\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/RyJ2DUzCXsk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/5sJ2E3itjkk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t watch the show Dragon&#8217;s Den, though I&#8217;ve heard of it: potential entrepreneurs pitch their products to a group of wealthy investors in the hope that they will get some capital. The investors &#8212; the dragons &#8212; are blunt when they need to be, and it does make for an interesting show. &#8230; especially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}