Talk about "unethical" marketing...

That's hilarious! I'd put a hard copy on my coffee table...

I can if I buy this eBook

I'm a little disappointed in you, Michael. Look at all the words I typed in my post above yours trying to inject a little humor. The you come along and post a measly 18 words and your post is funnier than mine by far.

The least you could do is make it look a little harder.

lol I agree with that. Its a market nontheless.

I should correct myself, it really doesn't reflect on IM as a whole.. Fear Mongering (what I call it) has been in Marketing it seems since day one...

The latest fear(s) were of the H1N1 flu, its really not that different than the regular flu only this one was geared towards pigs.. H1N5 is the bird flu which made its grand appearance a few years ago..

I see aerosol disinfectant product is capitalizing on this too, saying it can help reduce the spread of H1N1..

So what really is the difference... :rolleyes:

I would just like to point out that you don't necessarily need scientific evidence to make doomsday claims. I feel like it just comes with the territory...

LOL-this suggestion reminds me of an equally effective strategy that people employed pretty widely for a while-skipping the 13th floor when constructing tall buildings to avoid the bad luck the dreaded #13 might bring. There are still plenty of buildings standing that go straight from 12 to 14-when I first learned that, it cracked me up-are we silly or what?

Genius! I nominate Dan for Warrior of the...

No wait, I take that back. Anything the government gets involved in usually gets worse. We could end up with two or three 2012's.

Maybe we should consult the Magic 8 Ball on this one.

If anybody wants to email me their PayPal account info and passwords I'll check them with my proprietary software that checks for 2012 compliance.

If you see all your money evapoarte out of your accounts then you'll know you're not compliant for 2012.

I can check your bank accounts as well if you're worried about those.

KJ

chevu - Dude, will you take a chill in your mad rush to get banned? Don't worry, it shouldn't be that long. I'm sure that I'm not the only one to send in a moron alert.

Tina

Somebody has to ensure the survival of the human race through this.

Not sure which thread you're reading, I don't see anyone getting bent out of shape. Most people here seem to be having fun with it.

Well, I'd have to say the threat of nuclear war is a whole lot greater than the threat of a vampire, or zombie attacks-since nuclear weapons actually do exist, and destroyed 2 cities during wartime. Science can't predict the future, so obviously there's no "scientific" evidence that we "will be" bombed, or that any other specific future will take place.

But you're fooling yourself if you think the nuclear threat is a scam. Increasing #s of weapons scattered through a world rife with hostilities and with a long history of wars that generally took advantage of the latest, deadliest weapons make it a matter of grave concern, even in the absence of a scientific equivalent of a crystal ball. Not to mention the fact that the country which has always had the most nukes, has actually threatened others with them an a number of occasions, and the treaty every major power signed promising to reduce and work toward their elimination, has not only been ignored-we've spread them.

No, the bomb shelter scam wasn't based on spreading fear of a false threat-the threat is real enough, and bad enough. The scam was selling the shelter as a solution-they actually underplayed the horror of the hideous aftermath in order to make the shelter seem like a good hedge. The only viable solution to the threat is to do away with it-and we've been sold the idea that it isn't realistic to do that-so you better figure out how to survive. If humans can't remove a threat to themselves that's entirely human produced, what business do we have worrying about external threats?

There's been only one sane (not to mention decent) course for humanity since the nuclear age dawned-every functioning, intelligent person on earth needs to be a peace activist, and demand that all governments live up to the Non-Proliferation Treaty-and eliminate this obscenity from the planet. As long as we're pointing missiles at each other and making threats, we might as well call ourselves mass murderers of children-not just the children of the present, but all future generations as well. Actually, conventional wars make mass murderers of all of us, but the nuclear war would scale it up to the point where the adults alive now could take credit for the murder of the entire human race, along with other species as well. (Not that anyone will be left to judge, but we ought to feel pretty guilty in advance, if we accept and fail to fight such a threat)

.................still laughing over here.

RoD

p.s. @ James: I agree with you. Marketers in that context are being unethical.

I agree to an extent, yes many do pass on these myths and many post them on this forum as facts. Still to me the ones that market products this way and they claim to be a "marketer" (just because you claim it does not make it true) are doing unethical methods to make money.

James