What’s up with SciencePunk?

I realise that there’s been a whole plethora of science videos this last week, and some of you may be thinking “Has Frank simply got very lazy?  Can’t he be bothered to root out bad science anymore?”.  Still more are probably thinking I don’t have time to post entertaining snippets of weird science because I’m too busy hanging out in London’s cocktail bars, snorting coke off the breasts of teenage models.  Actually, the truth is even better: I’m putting the finishing touches to a sciencepunk piece of colossal magnitude - to be released in a week or two.  It’s gonna be ace.  Until then, I’ll do my best to maintain this site as best I can with the few waking minutes I still have free.

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Supremely humourous Clarins promotional video

As many of you will remember, cosmetics company Clarins recently launched Expertise 3P, a spray that could form an invisible “Magnetic Defence Complex” on your skin, protecting you from the skin-ageing effects of “Artificial EMF” (a.k.a. mobile phone waves etc). Things were going swimmingly until several people complained to the Advertising Standards Authority that Clarins was talking utter rubbish. The ASA agreed and ordered Clarins to remove the offending claims from their promotional material.

Happily for us, nothing every dies on the internet, and I have dug up this wonderfully silly promotional video featuring an interview with Dr Lionel di Benetti, head of R&D at Clarins. If only I’d seen this before posting my top 10 bad scientists on film.

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