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The researcher behind the smartphone “horns” study sells posture pillows

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  1. Thrabalen
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    I thought this seemed silly when it was first posted, and it turns out the "researcher" sells posture pillows. I'm sure he was unbiased. On a serious note, the old adage is still just as true as...

    I thought this seemed silly when it was first posted, and it turns out the "researcher" sells posture pillows. I'm sure he was unbiased.

    On a serious note, the old adage is still just as true as it ever was: follow the money.

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    1. Deimos
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      The BBC article that started this whole flood of "phones are giving kids horns" stories in the first place is a really good read on that topic: How modern life is transforming the human skeleton...

      The BBC article that started this whole flood of "phones are giving kids horns" stories in the first place is a really good read on that topic: How modern life is transforming the human skeleton

      (submitted on Tildes here: https://tild.es/eq7)

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  3. Omnicrola
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    Rant ahead. I am immediately skeptical of anything related to chiropracty after doing some website work for a chiropractor years ago. That particular guy not only had a clinic, he had a cult like...

    Rant ahead.

    I am immediately skeptical of anything related to chiropracty after doing some website work for a chiropractor years ago. That particular guy not only had a clinic, he had a cult like following of people who would go to hear him speak across the country. Nearly all of his material for those talks was business/money-related. How to get customers, how to keep them, how to get people to refer thier friends, how to convince people they needed regular chiropractic appointments to set up repeat customers.

    The entire time I did work for them it felt like I was helping scam people. After the work was done I declined to do any more contact jobs for them. It was easy money, but it felt dirty.

    2 votes
  4. moriarty
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    And to think I kept checking the back of my head for horns!

    And to think I kept checking the back of my head for horns!

    3 votes
  5. CharlieConway
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    A chiropractor turned out to be a quack? Shocking.

    A chiropractor turned out to be a quack? Shocking.

    1 vote