{"id":277,"date":"2012-11-26T20:54:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T20:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/?p=277"},"modified":"2012-12-30T04:44:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T04:44:44","slug":"mark-cuban-skeptic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2012\/11\/26\/mark-cuban-skeptic\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Cuban, skeptic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/files\/2012\/11\/saupload_mark_cuban_dallas_mavericks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-281\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/files\/2012\/11\/saupload_mark_cuban_dallas_mavericks-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Cuban\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/files\/2012\/11\/saupload_mark_cuban_dallas_mavericks-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/files\/2012\/11\/saupload_mark_cuban_dallas_mavericks.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Really interesting article up on ESPN today, a site not known for it&#8217;s reporting on pseudoscience:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/dallas\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/8677068\/mark-cuban-dallas-mavericks-blasts-nba-scam-bracelet-deal\">Mark Cuban rips NBA over bracelets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently the NBA signed some sort of a promotion deal with the makers of Power Balance Bracelets.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The rubber bracelets have a distinctive hologram that is &#8220;based on Eastern philosophies of health and wellness,&#8221; according to the company&#8217;s website. Power Balance bracelets featuring NBA team logos in the hologram are available for $32.99 on the league&#8217;s official website.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kudos to Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, for throwing those right into the trash where they belong. Maybe he saw the a <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebasedlife.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/02\/exposing-the-power-balance-con\/\">primer <\/a>on why these are a load of bunk or perhaps<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/22027848\/\"> read a scientific article<\/a> showing they don&#8217;t work. Or maybe he just had an ounce of common sense. Check out the video below to see him exercise his critical thinking skills.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"These balance bracelets are still a scam\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/StnBksWdjUg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really interesting article up on ESPN today, a site not known for it&#8217;s reporting on pseudoscience: Mark Cuban rips NBA&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13],"tags":[20,79,80,41],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-pseudoscience","tag-critical-thinking","tag-mark-cuban","tag-power-balance","tag-pseudoscience-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}