It’s really bothering me how unethical sharkbanz is acting regarding their “research.” So here’s my take.
This company seems to actually be successful at this point. They have Obama and Zuckerberg wearing their product. The company seems to be a complete fraud in my opinion as a scientist. This isn’t my field of science at all but I can see how they are presenting their alleged research and something smells fishy (pun intended).
If you go on their webpage they have this image with all these front pages of legitimate peer reviewed scientific journals which did studies related to magnetic fields and sharks in general. The studies have nothing to do with sharkbanz just the concept of magnetic fields and shark sensory systems. Also it doesn’t show you the conclusion or anything just the title of the study. However they are presenting these front pages of studies that have nothing to do with their product with the results conveniently obscured as a representation of their product.
Then they go on to show what they actually have the audacity to call a peer reviewed study. It is not published in any scientific journal and looks like something you could type up in Microsoft word. Yet they label it as a peer reviewed study…but no journal published it? That makes no sense. That is deception. Here’s the article. There aren’t even any authors listed. I’m a scientist albiet in an unrelated field and I’ll tell you that this "research paper” with no journal and NO AUTHORS even named is straight up fraudulent in terms of being portrayed as a journal published peer reviewed scientific study (or they are confusing the reader into thinking this garbage study is peer reviewed while legally they can just say they were referring to the magnetism studies having nothing to do with their product). They do say in the first paragraph that the study was conducted by sharkbanz themselves (so not unbiased scientists). That says it all right there.
They seems to legal cover themselves from fraud by having their references to “peer reviewed research” refer to the studies regarding sharks and magnetic fields that have nothing to do with shark banz and where they don’t show you the results. So there has been peer reviewed journal science done on the technology sharkbanz employs, but not the product itself. Plus they don’t even give the results of the magnetism studies that don’t involve their product. You could essentially use the magnetic field of an MRI machine that weight hundreds of pounds and is so powerful it can rip jewelry off a person and try and represent these small wrist sized magnets that are no where near as powerful as being related. You can’t do that. You have to test the actual product you’re representing.
Here is an actual scientific study conducted and published in an actual scientific peer reviewed journal and the scientists actually publish their names as authors on the paper. The study concludes sharkbanz is garbage and ineffective. The also tested shark shield and a few other products and shark shield was the only one that showed efficacy. Shark shield operates using a completely different tech (electricity instead of magnetism). This post isn’t pro shark shield but there also so other Legitimate studies besides this one published in scientific peer reviewed journals with positive results re sharkshield.
The number of shark-human interactions and shark bites per capita has been increasing since the 1980s, leading to a rise in measures developed to mitigate the risk of shark bites. Yet many of the products commercially available for personal protection have not been scientifically tested...
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I spearfish in an area where white shark encounters are very common and we have an average of about one attack per year (usually surfers, kayakers, or open water swimmers, but some spearos have been attacked also). Nobody uses these things. Everyone that uses something uses sharkshield. When you know 100% you’re swimming with great whites that extra $400 of cost doesn’t even cross your mind when deciding what to protect yourself with.
