[TriLUG] Almost no press?

[Peter Neilson]

Matt Pusateri wrote:
> ... I don't really get excited about listening to propaganda from  
> Marketing/Management types who probably haven't done anything technical 
> in years, if ever.

Me, too. I'm even less excited if they bill what they are saying as 
being technical.

I'm on the receiving end of promos from a multi-level marketing campaign 
that a relative of mine is involved in. (The stuff shows up in his .sig 
on all his e-mails.) He asked me if I would like to join, and even sent 
me recordings of interviews with scientists, which is the product's way 
of showing how "scientific" they are. Like, if a scientist tells me it's 
good, then that's scientific, and I, someone with a good grounding in 
science, will be more inclined to believe.

Um, no.

My grounding in science causes me to reject claims that do not have 
numbers, and to test the numbers on those that have them. The product's 
claims have no numbers.

Studies show that 76.24% of claims that quote statistics are simply made up.