Comments on: And So Ad Infinitum…

By: Shoo Polish? » Tetherd Cow Ahead

Shoo Polish? » Tetherd Cow Ahead — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:03:38 +0000

[...] you didn’t think I could do it. I bet you didn’t think I could tie our old friends from ShooTag into homeopathy awareness week! But we have a saying around these parts: ‘Any man is liable [...]

By: Shitfaced » Tetherd Cow Ahead

Shitfaced » Tetherd Cow Ahead — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:45:04 +0000

[...] of criminals. Here on The Cow this is very familiar territory. Over the years we’ve seen the duplicitous Shoo!TAG™ scammers bilking all and sundry with their nutso pest repellent scheme; the smarmy Steorn with their [...]

By: wooTAG–uh, I mean shooTAG–Pest Control Device « The SkeptVet Blog

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:14:11 +0000

[...] product for pets (and people) that has woo written all over it. Anaglyph over at Tetherd Cow has written about the shooTAG pest repellant device, and has posted a follow-up response to a comment from the company CEO. I [...]

By: How Science Works » Tetherd Cow Ahead

How Science Works » Tetherd Cow Ahead — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:48:46 +0000

[...] inconvenience to some poor rabbit, presumably [↩]It is significant, in my opinion, that since I criticized the Shoo!TAG inventors’ claim to have had their science published in the (non-existant) [...]

By: 10 Quick Rules for Spotting Hogwash » Tetherd Cow Ahead

10 Quick Rules for Spotting Hogwash » Tetherd Cow Ahead — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:14:27 +0000

[...] washing powders2, but it really comes into its own in scams. Peddlers of nonsense as diverse as ‘electromagnetic’ pest control and ‘vibrational’ water just love to try and make you think that there’s science [...]

By: Global WooWoo » Tetherd Cow Ahead

Global WooWoo » Tetherd Cow Ahead — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:03:33 +0000

[...] Yeah, I bet. Sounds like it probably gets rid of fleas too. [...]

By: EMF - It’s Not What You Think! » Tetherd Cow Ahead

EMF - It’s Not What You Think! » Tetherd Cow Ahead — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:34:05 +0000

[...] was recently brought to my attention that the purveyors of the ludicrous Shoo!TAG™ have a bunch of clips up on YouTube that feature all manner of spurious claims. Since they have [...]

By: Special One Drop Intelligence » Tetherd Cow Ahead

Special One Drop Intelligence » Tetherd Cow Ahead — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:05:44 +0000

[...] Entropy0 confuse, frustrate and sadden me. It is plain that unlike the Steorn swindlers, or the ShooTag crooks, Mr 0 and the sellers of Special One Drop Liquid are not fully attached in this reality. His [...]

By: anaglyph

anaglyph — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:24:59 +0000

You may keep punning as long as they’re of that calibre.

By: Atlas Cerise

Atlas Cerise — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:18:19 +0000

What's wrong, Rev? You don't like a little Heiney Kin?

By: anaglyph

anaglyph — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:12:09 +0000

Sheer genyus, Fallon.

By: Fallon D. Headski

Fallon D. Headski — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:28:30 +0000

A high co haiku,

Has all th pyshics jus right.

Souns low co to me.

By: anaglyph

anaglyph — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:18:41 +0000

Thank you for your comment, Carson. As I've explained in my posts, your mother and her colleague Melissa Rogers know next to nothing about quantum physics. As I've shown elsewhere, Ms Rogers thinks that Einstein's famous mass/energy equivalence formula (one of the most famous mathematical equations of all time) is "E=M3/4". Even third graders know the correct equation. And comments your mother has made have demonstrated that she doesn't know much better. Seriously. I don't know what she was doing staying up late at night for two years, but it wasn't studying quantum physics. Carson, you know when a city slicker comes to the ranch and pretends that he knows everything about roping cows? And he talks lots of talk, but it's plain to everyone on the ranch that he's an idiot? That's what your mother looks like to any of us who know about quantum science. And I've seen the 'science' behind ShooTag on the website. If it's the same 'science' that you've got at the office, then I don't think I need to waste money on a phone call to Texas. Now Carson, listen carefully: Your mother is not in any way using science, or scientific thinking, or even plain common sense in the promotion of this product. (I'm not sure where you got the idea that 'hotel keys' were involved with any of this, but I can infer something very interesting from what you've said - the ShooTag is evidently some kind of card with a magnetic strip. If this is in fact the case, then you are all seriously deluded. There is NO WAY that the information encoded in a magnetic strip can repel fleas. NONE. That's total, utter, unadulterated HOGWASH And surely you have it round the wrong way - it's your cards that are lo co.)

By: Carson Heiney

Carson Heiney — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:56:01 +0000

i want all of yall to know that i have seen these tags work. My mother is the inventor of these tags. My mother stayed up late at night studying for 2 years in the quantum mechanics and pyshics, and working with bio feedback. They work! Its kind of sad that you people have the time to bash this product that yall dont even understand. If you would like to see the science call the office. All the contact info is there. Oh and hotel keys are low co cards and ours are high co cards, meaning ours can not me re encoded and hotel key cards can! Get it straight.

By: anaglyph

anaglyph — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:31:52 +0000

Actually Tom, the electronic rodent deterrents don’t work either. It’s all the same hocus pocus. Sadly, getting rid of pests is still the same tiresome and difficult chore it always was.

By: Merle_Tom

Merle_Tom — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:30:16 +0000

I can hear the guffaws and catcalls now at our stupidity, its true though these little strips are amazing in that they do precisely nothing. Amazing set of cajones these people gots. Guess I thought it was similar to the electronic rat/mouse device that does seem to work.

By: anaglyph

anaglyph — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:56:20 +0000

Caelestis: Yes, i think you’ve pretty much got their measure. I checked the site again and they’ve added a few things, including some extraordinarily risible things in the FAQ. Sadly, people still give them credence. The voice of reason is small and faint among the cacophony of gullibility.

By: Caelestis

Caelestis — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:26:44 +0000

My husband and I spent an hour poking around on the Shootag website tonight. He discovered that what they are selling is a credit-card sized piece of plastic with a magnetic strip on one side. You know, just like those plastic single-use encoded card hotel room keys… You can buy a pack of 100 blank magnetic strip cards for about $45 dollars and make your own Shootags in the comfort and safety of your own home! And we suspect they’d work just as well as the “real things”.

The 36 hours it takes for their “magnetic field to fully extend around the animal wearing the tag” is probably how long it takes for credit card payments to be deposited into their bank account.

And did anybody notice that their guarantee states that no matter how many tags you buy, if you are not satisfied with them, they will only refund the purchase price of one tag?

Ferengi Rules of Acquisition:
#1 Once you have their money, never give it back…

By: EXTRA: World’s Zombies Starving! » Tetherd Cow Ahead

EXTRA: World’s Zombies Starving! » Tetherd Cow Ahead — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:45:07 +0000

[...] Rogers, (CEO of the woo-powered ShooTag™ you will remember), has evidently been hitting the PR circuit hard, and her daft device is getting [...]

By: WooTag™ » Tetherd Cow Ahead

WooTag™ » Tetherd Cow Ahead — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:46:07 +0000

[...] and, evidently whilst vanity-searching her product, stumbled on The Cow. Well, of course, I said things she didn’t like so she found time to mount her best and most coherent argument against my point of [...]