The new age environment comes to mind, with everything from colonic washes to crystals.
Standing desks - stationary standing is just as bad as stationary sitting.
Blue light filter stuff - it's my understanding that there's no evidence that blue light causes eye strain.
Agile Coaches.
It’s like having a cadre of political officers in your team.
If you run a website: Paid SSL/TLS certificates. Free ones like Let's Encrypt and ZeroSSL are just as good, and can be automatically renewed.
Most antidepressant usage. Many of those people do not have a chemical problem in their brain, they are just unhappy due to all the societal problems. You can't treat social problems with a chemical.
"Social" "networking"
I'm shocked that no one has said Essential Oils yet.
They smell nice, if you put them in those burner thing, they have that going to them.
Not a product, but life coach feels like the snake oil version of therapy.
I mean isn't it obviously homoeopathy and a significant part of the rest of alternative medicine (not all of it I guess). It is a billion euro business in Germany alone.
The American "food" industry, the American "health care" industry, American politics, the prison industrial complex, the military industrial complex, entertainment, right off the top of my head.
- Alkaline water
- Smart toothbrushes
- Chiropractors
- Yearly bug and pest deterrent spraying around exteriors of buildings
- Self help books
- Apps like Nerdwallet
Gamer glasses
My eye Dr recommends the blue light filtering and "digital lenses" so I got them. I haven't noticed any difference in how my eyes felt. The info packet that came with the glasses noted at all claims regarding these features are not supported by any medical studies.
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