A new study shows that copper bracelets don’t relieve arthritis pain.
Now, you might think "wire they even doing that," but the study was well-grounded, conducted thoroughly, and had little resistance. I think it strikes a cord, and so I’m willing to plug it.
I even hope they make it into a movie. It could be directed by Stanley Cupric.
Note added after posting: I see that James Randi his own self wrote about this today on Swift as well. Great minds, yadda yadda. Thanks to Travis Roy for pointing this out.
Tip ore the hat to Fark.
October 19th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Groan…………….
October 19th, 2009 at 10:19 am
This deserves punishment.
October 19th, 2009 at 10:21 am
My pun meter just exploded.
October 19th, 2009 at 10:22 am
Stanley Cupric… /slow clap/
October 19th, 2009 at 10:24 am
These results are [not] shocking.
October 19th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Ohm my goodness. Revolting puns. Watt were you thinking?
October 19th, 2009 at 10:32 am
much negative feedback.
October 19th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Just your two cents?
October 19th, 2009 at 10:36 am
The thing that really is frightening about this post: Dr. Plaitt probably didn’t even have to TRY to make all those puns!
October 19th, 2009 at 10:37 am
A new study shows that copper bracelets don’t relieve arthritis pain.
The deuce you say!
Clearly it’s the BigPharmaMedicalIndustryIlluminati lobby trying to keep us down and sick.
October 19th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Wow, Aaron, how could the BA have missed that one?!
October 19th, 2009 at 10:40 am
That was revolting. Those puns aren’t even current!
October 19th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Gotta love that headine: “Trial raises doubts over alternative pain therapy for arthritis”.
Because until now, we had no doubts about copper bracelet therapy.
October 19th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Watt are you guys even talking about?
October 19th, 2009 at 10:42 am
“Tip ore the hat to Fark.”
You couldn’t even end the blog without one, could you?
October 19th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Well, at least the reporting is as punctual as always.
October 19th, 2009 at 10:44 am
I agree with Dean. Groan… Watt a load of puns..
October 19th, 2009 at 10:44 am
No resistence? Maybe not at the current time. But I predict that soon the snakeoilers will be hard at work convincing us that Big Science is abusing its power. They’ll keep making claims that are poles apart from the scientific findings; you know they’ll never admit that they’re at volt.
October 19th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Is there a survey attached to this that we can all volt on?
October 19th, 2009 at 10:57 am
After hearing that, I’m going Ohm…
October 19th, 2009 at 10:59 am
I think my brain just shorted out from reading that
October 19th, 2009 at 11:10 am
I’m trying to decide how the folks at Callahan’s would react to that collection of puns.
October 19th, 2009 at 11:11 am
pun overload!!! Must insulate myself from the rest of the comments.
October 19th, 2009 at 11:13 am
yet again another opportunity to plug the jref wasted. Randi just posted about this earlier – http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/741-copper-and-magnetic-bracelets-useless.html
Do you not check the website that you’re a president of? As a JREF member it’s very disappointing that you’re not pushing the foundation a lot more.
October 19th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Shocking ! I’m not current but i volt we insulate ourselves from any impedance to good sense that this field may generate.
October 19th, 2009 at 11:16 am
I’m banging my head right now, and not in a good way. However, I’m still grinning. That’s the beauty of puns–they provide a mix of pleasure and pain in a way not often available in polite company.
October 19th, 2009 at 11:17 am
Isn’t there some medication y’all could be on?
October 19th, 2009 at 11:19 am
“No, don’t… don’t do that”
October 19th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Electrifying!
October 19th, 2009 at 11:21 am
It took a minute for all the puns to sink in, which made it hurt all the more.
October 19th, 2009 at 11:25 am
…Phil, you just killed my brain with groans and eyetilts.
October 19th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Pun overload…ugh…I think I’m turning green…
October 19th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Booooooooooo!!! Where’s that giant hook to drag someone off stage when you need it?
October 19th, 2009 at 11:31 am
I laughed til my side hertz.
October 19th, 2009 at 11:42 am
Where’s a rotten tomato when I need one?
October 19th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Okay, I think we’re going to have to revoke your pun privileges for that one.
October 19th, 2009 at 11:52 am
But they leave such a pretty green stain on your wrist!
Green is good, isn’t it?
October 19th, 2009 at 11:55 am
ow !!!!!!! my fillings!!!! reading this is as bad as chewing tinfoil!
October 19th, 2009 at 11:57 am
That last one was over the line.
October 19th, 2009 at 11:58 am
You should have a “Pun-O-Meter” on your posts. I’d rate this one at about 9.5.
Gary 7
Egads. The Magnetic therapeutic business generates $ 4.5 BILLION/year in sales? Maybe I’ve been going about this business of making money all wrong.
October 19th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
I can’t believe you would have the brass to say something like that…
October 19th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Phil, that was just too punny for me to handle
October 19th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Of course the copper bracelets don’t relieve arthritis pain.
That’s all wet.
It needs to be diluted to become effective!
Didn’t we learn anything from from homeopathy?
One must dilute the copper 70 times (once for each virgin, I think) then use acupuncture on it…
…then you send it to 52 weekly sessions of chiropractic while doing yoga, biofeedback and hypnosis.
Then one takes some herbs and calls back in the morning to get a prescription for pain meds.
October 19th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
my brain hurts, I need a copper foil hat to keep the puns out.
October 19th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
I have to admit this post reached nearly my capacitance for puns.
J/P=?
October 19th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
That does it, Doc… You’re grounded… Those who are in power should not abuse such power. We gauge you on your work, and the rating on this one is getting overblown. I’d suggest getting an editor to impede these excesses – a regulator, so to speak.
October 19th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
As the post “Pun-O-Meter” approaches [absolute] zero, you may find resistance to it lessening.
October 19th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Someone should call a copper on this guy!
On a more serious note, 45 cases is hardly a definitive sample, don’t you think?
As a secondary observation, if pain-relief from prayer or broccoli or copper bracelets does occur, but is entirely attributable to the placebo effect–who the hell cares, as long as the desired change has occurred? Some people are so picky!!
A
October 19th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
[Groan!] I think I’ll have to charge you for that one.
Methinks you mean “snakecoilers” here.
October 19th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
@ 35: Timkatt
“my brain hertz, I need a copper foil hat to keep the puns out.”
There, I fixed it.
October 19th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
@New England Bob
You forgot that you need to forward it to 10 of your friends.
October 19th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Yep, as I expected, this post galvanized your readers with little resistance. Let’s all chant a mantra to cure Phil of his punniness: Ohm, Ohm, Ohm….
October 19th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
At least he didn’t end off with l33t.
He could have said “Cu l8r!”
October 19th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
My eyes hurtz from all of the eye-rolling. Wire would you do that to us?
October 19th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
all puns aside, I hope they go after that blasted fraud of a Q-Ray bracelet while they’re at it.
October 19th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Sc00ter (#24): This blog software gives me the ability to pre-write posts and then schedule when they go live. I wrote this copper bracelet post up yesterday (Oct 18) and set it to go live today (Oct. 19) since I knew I’d be out most of the day on travel. The Swift article went up today. Since my TARDIS is broken, I didn’t know the Swift article was going up.
I also have many blog posts I put up plugging TAM London before the event, and did a big write up on it last week. I also plugged TAM 7 quite a bit, and asked people to donate to JREF when I hit 20k followers on Twitter. Incidentally, I have a post scheduled to go up tomorrow to promote the JREF cruise next year, too.
Obviously, I do promote the JREF here, though not in every post since that’s not the purpose of this blog. But when it’s appropriate I usually do.
October 19th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Well as they say round these parts, copper load of that!
(And for anyone who has made it this far, I admire your mettle!)
October 19th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Thanks for posting this Phil, this study will surely quell tension in the Middle East and solve world hunger.
October 19th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Lmao, all you pun-makers are so cute!
October 19th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Phil…
This is slightly off-topic, but please check out this EXCELLENT article about vaccinations:
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/10/inoculation-misinformation/
I think you might even want to do a blog entry on it!
Regards,
Mikel
October 19th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
But Behold… The copper will provide a significant effect. In green of course.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
I never thought they worked in the frist place I use Alive and icyhot on pulled muscles and sore joints I sometimes get from martial arts practice and they work well to releve pain and science dose make mistakes but it corects them like the piltdown hoax
October 19th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
I will BOO and HISS appropriately after the roaring laughter dies off. Thank you all so much! You are my favorite group of smartassies and I adore you.
October 19th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
It was so bad someone ought to call a copper.
October 19th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
http://sadtrombone.com/
October 20th, 2009 at 12:13 am
AAAAH! I can’t stand any more of these torturous puns! I just want to curl up and diode.
October 20th, 2009 at 5:25 am
After I log off last night I rember seeing a tv program about questable medical devices in fact James Randi hosted it now in the 1890s there simular diveces to those in this study were sold claiming that electricty was a cureall for every thing lots of people used these things and were not cured of anything so why are the same things sold 100 years later with the same claims made?
October 20th, 2009 at 9:32 am
60. mikel.
Cool link!
I want to start a new rumor about vaccines. Ready?
Vaccinations are a plot to alter our DNA and make us immortal but,,,with the unfortunate side effect of also making us rational, thus religion and woo-ness will become extinct. What will we do w/o our woo? So sad.
Gary 7
October 20th, 2009 at 10:31 am
I can’t believe that only of you got a charge out of this. That’s no way to conduct a punishing comment flow like this. It’s time to close this loop… or maybe open it. Y’all have amped it up too much. If you want continuity, please keep it short.
What about copper-plated titanium bracelets? I’ll bet those work.
October 20th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Copper threads and magnetic needles will not mend this knee of mine.
October 20th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
They obviously need to switch to nickel. At least that way the arthritis will be the least of the wearers worries.
October 20th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
OK, what is pun spelled backwards?
NUP
and a nup is enough.