Today, many ningbats received an email offering Amethyst Bio-Mat treatments—for a mere $35/hour.
SAVE YOUR MONEY.
Despite the diarrheal marketing twaddle splashed on Boquete.ning and across the Web, the "amazing" Bio-Mat is FDA approved for use as a heating pad, nothing more. All the breathless claims for miracle cures of myriad maladies are so much manure. Even the Bio-Mat site linked to from within Boquete.ning exhibits the following fine-print disclaimer, probably as a CYA to avoid litigation:
The Biomat is not a device to cure cancer or any other disease. The Biomat does not claim any medical benefits and does not claim to cure any disease or medical condition. It does not claim any diagnosis or treatment and only claims the statements in the Medical Device of the FDA's regulation. Specific medical advice should be obtained from a licensed health care practitioner. Any information and personal testimonies about the Biomat does not reflect the Biomat's claim.
This, even though the rest of the site brims with pseudoscientific gibberish designed to take advantage of gullible and/or desperate people in pain.
The quacks pushing this garbage should be ashamed of themselves.
Again, if you're considering spending big bucks on Bio-Mat bullshit, don't. Purchase a heating pad for $20 or $30 instead. You'll derive exactly the same benefit.
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Erica, Snake oil has always had a market and always will. Expect some people to jump on you saying the FDA lies, it probably does in favor of the big pharma that pays much of it's budget. Still this product is just a big heating pad, heating pads are good, this one overpriced at best.
Yes, I'm well aware of that, Lee. But the persistence of hucksters, from 19th-century snake oil salesmen to latter-day Bio-Mat scammers, is all the more reason to combat them. Basta ya.
Their technique is to deposit on a website a steaming pile of outlandish health assertions couched in faux-scientific verbiage and then proudly and disingenuously highlight that the Bio-Mat is "FDA approved"—which is true, but solely as a heating pad. The FDA-approved trick is a critical part of their false claims and as such is designed to fool those who don't take the time to investigate.
If the mat was advertised in the U.S. like this, exceeding the original claims and saying it is FDA approved, the FDA would go after them and make them stop. They can get away with it in Panama. If anybody wants to see the original FDA "approval", here it is: 510k K072534
I'd rather take a chance on the heated Shiatsu chair for $75