Comments on: Carpe Diem’s Kombucha http://www.sciencepunk.com/v5/2006/11/carpe-diems-kombucha/ Kicking ass in the name of science! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:48:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Klaus http://www.sciencepunk.com/v5/2006/11/carpe-diems-kombucha/#comment-4026 Klaus Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:27:14 +0000 http://www.sciencepunk.com/v5/2006/11/carpe-diems-kombucha/#comment-4026 I want to thank you for doing the research. I visited a Whole Foods grocery store and discovered the Carpe Diem brand there (they were handing out samples). I bought one with Ginko Biloba. The taste is good. So while checking on-line to see if I could get a better price for a quantity purchase, I stumbled onto your web site. I'll give the store manager a copy of your discovery...and I won't bother ordering any. Truth about the product and a subsequent loss of sales is what might get the attention of Austrian HQ. Thanks a bunch! I want to thank you for doing the research. I visited a Whole Foods grocery store and discovered the Carpe Diem brand there (they were handing out samples). I bought one with Ginko Biloba. The taste is good. So while checking on-line to see if I could get a better price for a quantity purchase, I stumbled onto your web site. I’ll give the store manager a copy of your discovery…and I won’t bother ordering any. Truth about the product and a subsequent loss of sales is what might get the attention of Austrian HQ. Thanks a bunch!

]]> By: Frank the SciencePunk http://www.sciencepunk.com/v5/2006/11/carpe-diems-kombucha/#comment-4025 Frank the SciencePunk Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:21:27 +0000 http://www.sciencepunk.com/v5/2006/11/carpe-diems-kombucha/#comment-4025 Rob, that's an excellent criticism and one worth addressing. I didn't ask the important question of whether there was someone more knowledgable / suitable I could speak to. But in my defence, Rachael #1 did say that company scientists were working on my queries. On your second point - a relentless harrying of unusual pseudoscientists is what sets SciencePunk apart from other similar blogs - if I did weekly one-offs on household-name quackery my site would simply be a second-rate imitation of Ben Goldacre's excellent <a href="http://www.badscience.net" rel="nofollow">Bad Science</a>. Everyone has their own style, and this is mine. :-) Rob, that’s an excellent criticism and one worth addressing. I didn’t ask the important question of whether there was someone more knowledgable / suitable I could speak to. But in my defence, Rachael #1 did say that company scientists were working on my queries.

On your second point - a relentless harrying of unusual pseudoscientists is what sets SciencePunk apart from other similar blogs - if I did weekly one-offs on household-name quackery my site would simply be a second-rate imitation of Ben Goldacre’s excellent Bad Science. Everyone has their own style, and this is mine. :-)

]]> By: User http://www.sciencepunk.com/v5/2006/11/carpe-diems-kombucha/#comment-4020 User Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:38:28 +0000 http://www.sciencepunk.com/v5/2006/11/carpe-diems-kombucha/#comment-4020 Erm.....? Am't most drinks on shelves in supermarkets these days full of claims regarding health giving properties??? Wouldn't your time have been better spent researching something that people may actually be interested in, instead of relentlessly contacting someone that probably didn't promise you anything in the first place. I doubt someone in a marketing dept would have had any power to provide you with such information, and if you want to blame anyone - it has to be Austria HQ in my opinion not Rachel No.1!! Erm…..? Am’t most drinks on shelves in supermarkets these days full of claims regarding health giving properties??? Wouldn’t your time have been better spent researching something that people may actually be interested in, instead of relentlessly contacting someone that probably didn’t promise you anything in the first place. I doubt someone in a marketing dept would have had any power to provide you with such information, and if you want to blame anyone - it has to be Austria HQ in my opinion not Rachel No.1!!

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