I had thought about taking the day off after celebrating the 100th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle yesterday, but a skeptic's work is never done, and, besides, my wife's out of town for a couple of days. Given the choice of television, working on my program's section of our cancer center core grant or one of the two other grants I'm currently juggling, or blogging, I wonder what appeals to me more. Hmmmm....
Ah, screw it. I've been living my work nearly every waking hour for the last few days. Heck, I even got stuck at work fairly late last night because of the bane of being s surgeon, having a case scheduled as an add-on. Whenever that happens, you can be sure that it won't start until 6 PM at the earliest--and that's if you (and your patient) are lucky. I wasn't lucky, and neither was my patient. (It really sucks for a patient to have to wait so many hours to be operated on.) In any case, blogging helps me maintain my sanity in the face of this unrelenting onslaught, at least for now.
Speaking of faces, though, let's move on to week's victim--I mean subject--for the latest installment of Your Friday Dose of Woo. Back in August we met the woo-meister du jour at the heart of this particular woo. (Or, should I say, woomeister de la semaine?) I'm talking about a woman named Mary Elizabeth Wakefield. She runs an "alternative" medicine practice known as the Chi-Akra Center, and at the time she was hawking Acupuncture Facial Rejuvenation, otherwise known as an "acupuncture facelift." I had to admit, it was pure genius in that it combined an appeal to the vanity that is in us all with the promise of a "no surgery" solution to produce a face lift-like result. Best of all, in an "Emperor's New Clothes" sort of angle, who's going to admit after paying so much money for such a procedure that they'll convince themselves that they see an improvement.
But, hey, acupuncture deals with all those nasty needles being stuck into your skin. There might even be a little bit of blood. Who needs that hassle. Why not instead take advantage of Ms. Wakefield's new and even more appealing bit of vanity woo?
Why not take advantage of Facial Soundscapes: Harmonic Renewal? Check it out:
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