Thread:User talk:Nebuchadnezzar/"better than"/reply (2)

As most of the major skeptical writers will say, the issue is that if someone buys a magnetic bracelet to feel better and then feels better, they'll assume there must be something to it. So when it comes to buying the magnetic bracelet to cure their kid of leukaemia there must be something to it, so it must be able to help.

I don't advocate attacking the indiviudal, though. It always has to be the idea. "This is why the bracelet doesn't work" not "this is why you're an irrational fool for buying it".