‘Hardcore science’ or ‘just a sticker’ – do anti-anxiety patches actually work?

[SNT Gatchaman]

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/07/nucalm-anti-anxiety-calming-discs

Torn between posting here or in the humour/entertainment thread. Enjoy.

The brand’s website is filled with so much jargon that it should be studied in every marketing class: allegedly, NuCalm’s “neuroacoustic technology” harnesses oscillations, frequencies and vibrations to change a person’s brain waves.

Guy Leschziner, professor of neurology and sleep medicine at King’s College London, told the Telegraph that the brand’s promised results “stretch the realms of credibility”.

They should have asked someone else at King's

 

[NelliePledge]

Yeah so the spa music and eye mask don’t make you relax a bit it

absolutely definitely the stickers that are a completely genius new invention. Tale worthy of Hans Christian Andersen

 

[EndME]

Of course it's just a sticker. Only the “quantum biosignal AI processing discs” really work. Can't believe they missed out on both "quantum" and "AI", what amateurs.

 

[Trish]

An article about technobabble:
Technobabble and tenuous terminology: the use of pseudo scientific language

Variations and related tactics
Pseudoscientific language is one indicator of what Stephen Law, in his book Believing Bullshit, calls pseudoprofundity:

Pseudoprofundity is the art of sounding profound while talking nonsense.

The Sokal hoax shows how easily pseudoscientific language can be used to fool people. Physicist Alan Sokal wrote the article “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity” which was published by the journal Social Text in 1996.

 

[Mij]

Turning off my phone reduced my anxiety tremendously and it's free.