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But the uses in medical fields are probably quite varied and many]]>Sep 26th 2009 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/Sep 26th 2009 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/Sep 26th 2009 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/Sep 26th 2009 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/Sep 26th 2009 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/Sep 26th 2009 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/Sep 26th 2009 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/
"Alternative medicine is medicine that has either not been proven to work or been proven not to work. Know what they call medicine that's been proven to work? Medicine." -- Tim Minchin

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Don't believe me? Take a close look at your iris, go break your leg for example and then look at your iris again. Take a hammer to your knee and you will see light spots in your iris denoting an acute injury. If you want to see dark spots do something to cause chronic injury and watch your iris change.

The only people that do not believe this are those that are part of an establishment that want to over charge people for health care. ]]>Sep 27th 2009 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/Sep 27th 2009 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/
Start with an idea that has its origins in something other than evidence (mythology, wishful thinking, anything other than data), then try to retrofit an explanation of why your idea is true. Hand pick a few legitimate studies to twist, tweak, and misinterpret to "prove" your idea is correct. Label anything in conflict with your idea to be part of a conspiracy from the establishment. Do a few studies of your own, write papers that include lots of complicated math or chemistry formulas that don't actually mean anything. Those "establishment" scientists who understand enough to recognize the poppycock for what it is will prevent the flawed studies from being published in recognized peer-reviewed journals, but hey, that's all part of the conspiracy, right? It gives the "alternative" studies the sheen of science without actually requiring anything of substance to back it up. Meanwhile, build up a community of devotees and evangelists. The devotees are often driven by desperation. The evangelists have reputations and egos to sustain, not to mention products and services. Both groups have a newfound piece of personal identity that is difficult to let go of. If you challenge what they sell they will quite literally demonize you. You end up with a group of people that swear up and down that black is actually white, if admitting it's black goes against the doctrine of their particular brand of pseudo-science.]]>Sep 28th 2009 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/Sep 26th 2009 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/Sep 26th 2009 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/Sep 26th 2009 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/Sep 26th 2009 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/Sep 26th 2009 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/Sep 26th 2009 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/
if you no longer have your Rights... then what FREE-time would you have to even use them.... OR THE FREEDOM TO CHANGE IT?

shut up or get out of my country.. AMERICA THE LAND OF THE FREE!]]>Sep 26th 2009 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/Sep 26th 2009 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/Sep 26th 2009 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/Sep 26th 2009 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/Sep 26th 2009 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/Sep 26th 2009 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/Sep 26th 2009 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/Sep 26th 2009 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/Sep 26th 2009 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/
So having said that, no, you cannot "prove" iridology to be false; nor can iridologists prove it to be a legitimate discipline.

As far as scientists are concerned; it's outright quackery. Do a google scholar search for Iridology (here's the address for the lazy: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=iridology ) and you'll see the first few studies there show that iridology consistently fails to accurately diagnose a disease state.

And peer reviewed journals are really as close to "proof" as you can get. ]]>Sep 26th 2009 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/There is absolutely no scientific research showing that the claims of iridology are valid at all.
The research that does exist shows that there is no correlation between any pigment differentiation on the iris and any disease. It is therefore, scam and quackery. The issue is not the acceptance or non-acceptance of alertantive medicine. The issue is that if real research finds no evidence that something works, whether or not the mechanism is known, then it falls in to the realm of quackery. ]]>Sep 26th 2009 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/
And if you read "Practitioners match their observations to iris charts which divide the iris into zones corresponding to specific parts of the human body" then I think anybody with a grasp of reality, be it feeble or strong, will know what we are dealing with.
If not then that person should be the one proving to mental healthcare professionals that he is sane before the discussion continues.

Although obviously you can detect certain diseases by looking at the eyes, but that's not the thing called iridology.
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I seem to remember a lot of screeching and moaning when Apple charged 5 bucks for a software upgrade for the iPod touch.

This 'too much money' problem nowhere to be seen on Engadget..]]>Sep 27th 2009 2:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/]]>Sep 27th 2009 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/
this company is trying to scare people into buying their product ]]>Sep 27th 2009 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/usb-iriscope-is-just-what-you-need-for-your-next-date/Sep 27th 2009 1:46PM