Comments on: wooTAG–uh, I mean shooTAG–Pest Control Device

By: anaglyph

anaglyph — Tue, 04 May 2010 04:23:25 +0000

Another update for you. The Dish by Darcie is a blog run by a woman associated with a pet products website. Darcie did a good test of the ShooTags and wrote her (overwhelmingly negative) review here:

http://bit.ly/cYJoE7

She’s also been aggressively hammered by commenters who are obviously affiliated with ShooTag.

By: skeptvet

skeptvet — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:36:42 +0000

Yes, I had read somewhere else about that as well. It’s right up there with prescribing homeopathy to prevent malaria. A fine answer to the ubiquitous question about such nonsense therapies, “What’s the harm?”

By: anaglyph

anaglyph — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:31:08 +0000

Bit of a followup – Melissa Rogers now says they are intending to ship ‘people’ tags to Africa to fight malaria, as per comments on this post:

http://thedish.sitstay.com/2010/04/09/shootag-not-here-yet/#comment-1542

They have now crossed the line from being kooks to being truly dangerous.

By: skeptvet

skeptvet — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:59:27 +0000

God work plugging away at this , Anaglyph. I myself submitted complaints to EPA and FTC, but I doubt there will be any followup.

By: Rita

Rita — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:19:06 +0000

“paradigm shift”………(reaches for gun)………

By: anaglyph

anaglyph — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:41:40 +0000

Since I wrote those two pieces I’ve had further contact with the ShooTAG people in various manifestations. Interesting things have happened: the reference to the mysterious and non-existant ‘Quantum Agriculture Journal’ on the ShooTAG ‘Science’ page has been removed, as have references to the questionable ‘Professor’ William Nelson. A link to a completely baffling ‘paper’ has been taken down too (I wish I’d snapped the page – it was so convoluted and meaningless as to be entirely laughable).

ShooTAG has also released a product meant for humans – something that could plainly be dangerous. For instance, if you trusted it to keep away mosquitoes in a malaria zone, you would be in grave risk of catching the disease.

I’ve questioned the ShooTAG makers about this but they seem strangely oblivious. I have acquired some ShooTAGs of my own and I can tell you that they appear to be nothing more than plastic cards with some kind of magnetic strip. I’m in the process of getting a card-reader to see if I can determine what’s actually on the strip (I suspect it will turn out to be nothing at all).

The most despicable thing about these people is that they must know what they’re selling is complete rubbish, but they don’t care. In doing this, they are showing the highest level of disregard to animals by inflicting them with human superstition to the detriment of their own health.