I can see you've certainly done your due diligence with regard to wanting to see how/if the chips actually work. And I can understand how you've come to your conclusion that they are only a placebo since the company has not been as forthcoming as one would expect. Did you choose to devote this much time to the required research as part of your decision on whether to use the products or do you simply find that type of research interesting? I guess I'm curious what led you to it in the first place, i.e. what's your why? Are you a medical doctor and as a result, seeking out the actual science in the literature? If so, that makes sense to me.
I can tell you we've personally spoken with several doctors, both medical and chiropractic, who seem to have a better understanding of the 'why' or 'how' behind the chips functions. We've also seen some of these same doctors demonstrate the kinesiology or muscle response testing using the chips in a packet where 3 different chips were in the packet, and removing them one by one to where they identified one specific chip worked on a specific situation and not on another. Again, I'm sure there are many who also don't believe in kinesiology, but they most likely also don't believe in acupuncture or acupressure either.
At this point, I choose to agree with 'drugfreehealth' that time will tell IF, as you believe, CieAura is hiding the fact these are no more than stickers and everyone's positive results are simply the placebo effect. Until then, I, like drugfreehealth, believe they DO work and I also believe there IS science behind them that they are just not willing to share yet, for reasons we're not yet privy to. Again, if they were truly just a placebo, how do they work on animals and small children who can't reason that it SHOULD help them, which is how a placebo works for anyone, i.e. their own brain convincing them it did. How do you explain that? Do you think we're all willing ourselves to believe our animals and children are receiving the benefits? That is not logical to me since there are also way too many skeptics who now 'believe' the product works. How did the placebo affect change their opinions from 'no way' to 'oh my gosh'.
I don't believe the company is a scam, regardless of Mr. Rasner's past associations with LifeWave and the information you've discovered regarding previous patent applications. There will always be negative press on any network marketing company, always has and it appears, always will. So, I guess, for that reason, I have become accustomed to making my own decision about a company or product, as objectively as possible without listening to the negative hype that so many people choose to spread, i.e. 'all network marketing companies are pyramids'. To me, that's just someone who's uneducated and is brushing with too broad a stroke because of the real bad apples out there that have given this industry an undeserved reputation.
If network marketing were truly a scam industry as some seem to believe, I don't think Robert Kiyosaki, Donal Trump and Warren Buffett would recommend it as one of the best business models for those wanting to create wealth today, much less would they have invested in NM opportunities.
That being said, I understand you're not necessarily slamming NM as many here seem to be, and I think you raise many valid questions, some of which, we've raised ourselves. I, too, hope the company soon chooses to release the information behind their patent claims so we can put this all to rest, one way or the other. Since we are choosing to believe they DO work, having the supporting documentation behind us would definitely be very beneficial.
Full disclosure: my cousin is a CieAura rep and when she contacted me
with this "amazing new healing technology" I was more than willing to
listen. She gave me her pitch and sent me some samples of each CieAura
product. While waiting for them to arrive (she lives in another state) I
started looking into this "holographic" technology that CieAura
supposedly employs for their miracle products. The deeper I dug, the
more red flags started popping up left and right. By the time my CieAura
sample pack arrived, I was already of the mindset that this was just
another ridiculous scam foisted on a gullible public. I tried the
CieAura stickers (to refer to them as "chips" is to give them a level of
credibility that is not warranted) and, not surprisingly, got zero
results. Nada. Nothing. My cousin and I had several back and forths
which consisted of me presenting her with common sense queries about the
"science" behind these products, the testing methods of the stickers,
do they wear out after a certain amount of time, how are the results
quantified etc, and while she tried to field my questions, it was fast
becoming clear that there were no answers to be had other than
"overwhelmingly positive personal testimony" and "clinical trials are
forthcoming". We thusly parted ways, she convinced that I was just being
difficult, and I convinced that she was either A) just as gullible as
the poor fools who don't realize that their own minds were manifesting
the results they wished to see from the products or B) fully aware that
this is nothing more than a scam and a willing accomplice to the
fleecing of the ignorant and desperate.
So here, for any CieAura enthusiasts who may visit this forum, are some
questions. They should be easy enough to answer if the product is truly
what it claims to be.
1. I studied the samples I received very closely and there is nothing
-nano or otherwise- ingrained, embedded, etched or otherwise implanted
onto or into these stickers that could have any effect whatsoever on the
body's magnetic fields, harmonic frequencies, et al. How can a hologram
sticker be "programmed" when all a hologram really is is a laser-etched
piece of plastic?
2. If CieAura has a device that quality checks each sticker to ensure
that the "programming" has been successfully incorporated (and there's
no reason in the world why they wouldn't have such a device) why not use
that data to substantiate their claims? Stands to reason that it'd
silence the naysayers in a heartbeat, and it wouldn't necessitate the
divulgence of proprietary information.
3. If this incredible breakthrough is really so incredible, why offer it
solely through a multilevel marketing program? And on the same note,
we're expected to believe that with the billions of dollars of
biomedical research going on in both public and private think tanks
across the globe, this multilevel marketing outfit stumbled upon the
breakthrough of the century and decided it would best serve humanity by
presenting it as a "get rich through others" networking scheme? I'm
fairly certain that they'd stand to make way more money if they'd simply
license the tech and distribute it through legitimate channels.
There are more questions of course, but those address the core concerns.
Hopefully the answers are forthcoming.
