FEEDBACK is indebted to denizens of the bulletin board for alerting us to a website that must surely be of benefit to all humanity. Go to and you will find it promises a method by which āmigraine headaches, bronchitis, diseased teeth, arterio thrombosis, chronic blood disorders such as leukemia, arthritis and related illnesses, neuro physiological paralysis, eczema, gastro enteritis, peritonitis, heart disease, kidney disease, meningitis, and womenās hormonal disorders are completely eliminated from the organismā.
What could be better? Quite a lot, apparently, for it further claims that āin terminal diseases such as cancer, Aids and chronic infections this treatment method has been shown to successfully replace all othersā. Users ācould potentially live healthy to be 140 to 150 years oldā.
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And what could this treatment method be? It consists of swishing cold-pressed sunflower or sesame oil in the mouth: āIn the morning before breakfast on an empty stomach you take one tablespoonā¦ move oil slowly in the mouth as rinsing or swishingā¦ for fifteen to twenty minutes.ā You may not be surprised to read that when āDr. F. Karach, M.D., presented a paper before the All-Ukrainian Associationā (of what, they do not say) the āresults of this therapy invoked astonishment and doubtā.
āJoaquim Figueredo notes that the principal team leader of the Stability and Calibration group at UK-based pharmaceuticals company Bodycote Health Sciences is none other than Suzanne Measuresā
An Urban75 user going by the name of āfridgemagnetā asks: āCan I just eat an enormous fried breakfast every day instead?ā Feedback isnāt sure, for while the Oilpulling site warns: āThe oil must not be swallowed, for it has become toxic,ā it later reassures us that āinadvertently if you swallow there is nothing to worry. It will go out through faeces.ā
The biggest puzzle is why the site exists at all. It can hardly be there to make money. It isnāt selling anything and the Google Ads it runs canāt generate much income. Do the siteās owners ā who appear to live in the state of Illinois ā seek martyrdom rather than riches, like that conferred upon sometime psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, whose supporters say he was hounded to death by the medical establishment for claiming he could cure cancer?
Whatever. Thanks, people of Urban75. We owe you a pint, not necessarily of sunflower oil.
READER Robert Tisserand has not been impressed by the lifespan of supposedly eco-friendly domestic light bulbs. The first one he bought a year ago lasted a mere two months, and many more have bitten the dust since. So he was delighted to see recently, in a hardware store, a Feit Electric Ecobulb that proclaims it āLasts 7 Years Guaranteedā.
Then he noticed, in much smaller print, the words āup toā. So his new purchase is likely to fail at some point between now and 2015, and that point could be in just a weekās time. Very impressive.
ON THE BBCās online news pages there is a section showing the āmost emailedā stories from the site. Sometimes, Chris McManus noticed, the stories listed are months or years out of date. On 13 July this year, when McManus became aware of this, one of the most popular stories was one from 2003 about dog safety.
McManus guessed that this list must be based on very small numbers, so he did a little experiment in which he indulged in the vanity of emailing himself five times with , also from 2003, about a paper he wrote that won the Aventis prize. This was enough to put the story straight up to fourth position on the list.
āAs with all rankings,ā McManus points out, āthese things can be very dubious with small numbers.ā He goes on to describe a way people could take advantage of this with a technical fix that would keep their page of choice permanently at the top of the BBC list. But he concludes: āOf course, Feedback wouldnāt even think of suggesting that, Iām sure.ā So we wonāt.
THE British Computer Society sent Dot Graham a reminder that her membership was about to expire. Nothing unusual in that, of course, were it not that she has life membership of the society.
āDoes the BCS know something about my life expectancy that I should be aware of?ā she writes. This is, however, the second time this has happened, āand I didnāt die last time, so I am hopefā¦ā
FINALLY, the bottle of St Ives Skin Firming body lotion that Chris Aubrey-Smith photographed for us has the slogan ā31 per cent more firmnessā emblazoned across it.
Aubrey-Smith asks if we can help identify the scale of measurement on which this claim is based. We canāt, but hope readers might. As Aubrey-Smith points out, it might have applications in other fields.
