So, EMF blocking Stickers, Pendants or Death-Crystals?
Uh, how to start with this one... Local health store started carrying the latest line of emf blocking stickers and pendants. At first I thought good grief, if people are that gullible as to not look into the science behind they perhaps deserve to have there money parted from them. Several weeks later though, a symposium was booked in the local convention hall. I was surprised to learn how many people actually went to this, and were indeed parted with a fair chunk of change. If you look into to it there are numerous if not hundreds of these anti-emf scams abound on the internet all claiming only theirs works... That alone would send my spidey senses tingling. I really don't want to get in to the science behind why this is a scam, and would appreciate answers from people who know what they are talking about rather then those have been duped. Moving on... I am afraid the owner of the health store is going to get slammed on this one eventually. Normally I would say the owner of the store has a good head on her shoulders with an excellent BS sensor. Not so much, this time around. Guess my question would be how to inform her of why its a scam with out her eyes rolling into the back of her head. "Had a friend go the symposium for kicks, "she has a doctorate in bio-engineering, health science and is pursing her latest degree in occupation health sciences." To her shock and delight it was simple for her to see through the scam, but she had to admit his did provide a technical sounding argument, mixing truth with techno babble, that perhaps someone with an understanding of only layman’s terms could be persuaded by. Oh, what to do...
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Stupid people feed the less stupid, who feed the reasonably-functional, who feed the properly-functional, etc - until the super-clever get rich (like Bond-Villains).
It's capitalism, and it's basic animal-behaviour.
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But I understand what you intended. Here's an example I used to explain the limited blocking ability of small devices.
"We all know from Einstein that light is another frequency of ElectroMagnetic Energy, right? And something that works to shield you from light would need to cover your entire body, right? Now look at this "EMF sticker" here, how big is it? Which square inch of your body do you want to protect? And do you think you'll want to cover the back side too? How about the sides of the protected area? So, just as a business card cannot protect your whole face from light, neither can a small antenna protect your whole brain from electronic rays. If you think a tiny antenna can 'grab waves' out of the air, do you think a business card can grab all the light around your face to protect it with a light absorbing force field? ... No."
Other than that, it's horse...... ...poop.
Mongo woowoo.
Beyond that... In the end, if someone is determined to gamble, even after being told that the game is rigged, you can't stop them unless you can get them declared incompetent. I wasn't around to tell my friend not to sink $600 in a game of three-card monty, but even if I had been there I don't think she would have listened to me. People make their decisions -- including the decision to not listen to advice -- and hopefully survive to learn from the consequences.
Again, all you can do is tell people. If they insist on believing that there's a conspiracy which only they know the truth of... well, evolution takes no prisoners.
That being said, it doesn't matter because these people will not believe you no matter what evidence you present them with. Its the same thing as the people who spend a fortune for colonic's, convinced that they have huge ammounts of toxin's and stuff in them and the only way to get it out is to run a hose up their butt. There is a whole branch of pshchology dedicated to this but basically some people would rather believe a lie that offers them some kind of hope rather than the facts. It is easier to follow rather than to be informed, its easier to be part of a mob mentality rather than to think for yourself. Its not that they don't have the ability to reason, its that they take the easier course and just go along with what anybody tells them.
Some rainmakers actually did produce rain. They fired silver nitrate into the sky with rockets and seeded the clouds. But the vast majority of them just put on a good show. You could even think of this as a form of entertainment, as long as people don't become obsessed with it, all it will do is drain them of their money.
All this reminds me of a product about a decade ago that looked kind of like a raspberry that you would put on top of your cell phone antenna (This was back in the day when cell phones had retractable antennas). The thing was supposed to protect your brain so you wouldn't get cancer.