Comments on: HeadOn alternative remedy – Wal Mart Candles

By: JoeDuck

JoeDuck — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:57:27 +0000

Yeztesd – good question. Yes you can get placebo effects even if you are a skeptic, but more likely the rubbing soothed you in some way. I’m not saying nothing happens here – I’m just saying that the “remedy” is nothing but overpriced wax.

By: yeztesd

yeztesd — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:17:21 +0000

I don’t get how this product works for me. I was “forced” to try it by my wife. I applied it thinking I was just wasting my time based on logic described in your article. However, the damn thing worked. So can you get placebo effects on people who are sure it wouldn’t work? I guess so.

By: joeduck

joeduck — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:28:24 +0000

Ha – you are right about marketing > substance. I think what irks me about things like HeadOn is not that they do clever marketing, but that they prey on the gullibilities of suffering people. There is something very wrong about quack medicine, and HeadOn is clearly in that category.

By: semcertification

semcertification — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:21:08 +0000

Marketing wins over substance anytime. Annoying commercials somehow grab you be the b….err throat and you’ll not soon forget. Would I buy Head On, now way I get a headache just thinking about it but you gotta give them props for out marketing and out playing the rest of the field.