My first step to my latest discovery was here where I was informed that
"A dedicated medical librarian with over 30 years of experience that uncovered the real root cause of tinnitus and how it affects the brain. After watching this video, you'll soon be able to shut off that cringing sound that's been ruining your life and feel completely normal again."If you don't know what a medical librarian is or does, have a look at this web page. The job requires between six to ten years of higher education, so not just any slob off the street can just jump behind the counter and do it.
I would also like to point-out that directly under the button you're supposed to click to discover this life-changing miracle is this disclaimer;
"THIS IS AN ADVERTISEMENT AND NOT AN ACTUAL NEWS ARTICLE, BLOG, OR CONSUMER PROTECTION UPDATE.
Representations regarding the efficacy and safety of Ear Clear have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA only evaluates foods and drugs, not supplements like these products. These products are not intended to diagnose, prevent, treat, or cure any disease. Click below for scientific studies to find evidence of a test, analysis, research, or study describing the benefits, performance or efficacy of Ear Clear based on the expertise of relevant professionals."
That should tell you everything you need to know about how truthful the advertisement really is. If they're not going to stand behind it, why should I believe them?
Let's Meet Greg!
So, I clicked on the link and was sent to this website where I was introduced to the newest product to come our way: Ear Clear Plus.
Embedded in the webpage is a video which I cannot embed in this blog because it is an unlisted video on YouTube, so it won't show-up in the search engine. However, I can provide a link to this video. That way, you'll be able to pause and backtrack in the video, if you want. You'll also be able to open a transcript and read it, if you'd rather not endure the nearly 62 minute video of "Greg Peterson" telling you his bullshit story.
By the way, comments on the video are unsurprisingly disabled.
So, who is Greg? That's tough question to answer because he doesn't show his face onscreen, but he sounds like some of the other voice actors who've done videos for products like this. I wouldn't be surprised if he's done this sort of thing before.
He claims to have worked as "medical librarian at one of the most prestigious universities for over 30 years". Most medical researchers - real ones, I mean - aren't shy about telling you where they've worked, but poor Greg is a bit shy. The name "Greg Peterson" is generic enough to make verification of his identity very difficult, if not impossible. Medical librarians, unlike medical doctors and surgeons, aren't listed in a central database that I can find.
Anyway, Greg claims that his tinnitus began about ten years ago. He didn't know what it was and it was driving him crazy. I'm actually surprised that a medical librarian wouldn't recognize or know about tinnitus, but whatever.
He then went to a "top-notch ear specialist" who he doesn't name. This specialist then revealed "The Secret", that tinnitus has nothing to do with the ears, but is a symptom of a much more serious problem. This isn't a new claim and I've blogged about this before. Essentially, the argument is that there's something wrong in your body, specifically in your brain. Rather than being something bad, tinnitus is supposedly an alarm going-off to warn you about this illness. The claim is that if you treat the underlying illness, the tinnitus will go away. Peterson goes further by stating that if you started having tinnitus while you were suffering from a cold or flu-like illness, then you need to go to your doctor immediately because you might be suffering from meningitis!
Okay, calm down. While meningitis has been known to cause tinnitus, tinnitus isn't a symptom of meningitis. If you want to know what the symptoms of meningitis really are, go to this website.
So, following in the footsteps of Tinnitus 911, Silencis Pro and Tinnitus Miracle, Ear Clear Plus is taking an old claim and trying to make it new again.
A lot of people like books and movies about spies, murder mysteries and conspiracies. Greg Peterson then injects a great big helping of this during his presentation by claiming that a cure does exist for tinnitus, but is being kept secret and is only being given to treat The Elite. Start watching the video at 23 minutes, 14 seconds and you'll hear about the Secret Cure that the US Government reserves for use only by Mensa members and other people in the Secret Brain Trust, leaving the rest of us peasants to suffer with tinnitus for our entire lives. Supposedly, Mensa members have access to The Cure because the US Government needs these super-smart people and tinnitus would interfere with their abilit to think clearly.
So, these two selfless individuals decided to take matters into their own hands. They stole and replicated the formula, making sure that the ingredients exactly matched those of the Secret Formula that The Elites had selfishly kept for themselves. They did all this at the risk of losing their jobs, going to prison or even being killed!
Greg even claims that Big Pharma is hunting him and Mr Parker "like dogs" for releasing this miracle cure and that Ear Clear Plus has "sent shockwaves through the medical establishment", which somehow escaped the notice of news organizations around the country and the ever-watchful membership at TinnitusTalk. As with previous "cures" for tinnitus, Greg makes the claim that Big Pharma is getting rich from selling drugs, while doctors get wealthy from performing surgical procedures, even though, as I have so often said, no medicines or surgeries are prescribed to treat tinnitus.
This story reads like a cheap spy novel. Of course, it's all bullshit.
Let's understand something about Mensa and high IQs: having a higher-than-average IQ does not make you smarter than everyone else. At least, that's what Yale University has to say on this topic. Also, if Mensa needed some sort of miracle cure for anything, it wouldn't be tinnitus, it would be Asperger's Syndrome, while afflicts a disproportionate percentage of their members.
Greg's claims that "They" are out to get him before he can reveal the Super-Secret Formula to the Unwashed Masses of the World, falls pretty flat when you consider that an ad posted on dctribune.com is how I discovered this web page in the first place. Add to that the fact that even though he tries to sound like we should hurry before "They" take down his site, it's been up for over a year and the video was posted on YouTube in October 2018. So, either a) Greg is lying or b) the Elite don't know how to pull a video off YouTube, block his ads and hack his website. Take your pick.
You may have noticed that the link to the main web page is unusually long. I tried going to tinnitustrick.com to see what was there and the main page is blank. However, that didn't stop me from digging-around.
Not surprisingly, tinnitustrick.com is anonymously registered through GoDaddy and the listed registrant is Domains By proxy, LLC.
Okay. that seems like a brick wall to most people, but not to me. I ran a check of the site's IP address and got this result: 185.62.238.21 (c38336.sgvps.net).
What does that mean? It tells me that the site uses a webhosting platform from Siteground, a company with offices in the USA, United Kingdom, Spain and Bulgaria. The IP trace reveals that the website is actually run out of Sofia, Bulgaria. So, it's a Bulgarian-owned site, not an American one. So, unless Greg Peterson's wife or Mr Parker is from Bulgaria, I'd guess that this whole thing is a scam.
"But, wait, Duane!", you might be saying or thinking, "Who is actually manufacturing and shipping Ear Clear Plus to my home? It can't be coming all the way from Bulgaria, right?" I'm glad you asked/thought.
The website allianceorganicsusa.com, the company sending you the shipment of Ear Clear Plus, is also anonymously registered by Domains By Proxy, LLC and its IP address is exactly the same as for tinnitustrick.com which, as I said, is in Sofia, Bulgaria.
I'll take a guess here and state that they probably have an American company to manufacture and ship the product, though I don't know which one. It doesn't really matter. Ultimately, the profits will find their way back to Bulgaria.
In my opinion, the people behind Ear Clear Plus copied the presentations of all previous "tinnitus cures", threw them into a blender and poured the resulting mixture onto their website and video. Almost nothing is different about Ear Clear Plus' approach compared to the others.
The main differences were the detail they went into regarding Greg Peterson's suicide attempt and the conversation between Greg and Mr Parker, which sounds like someone is an aspiring writer who thinks that going into so much detail somehow makes the product's claims more believable.
Let's make a list:
By the way, comments on the video are unsurprisingly disabled.
So, who is Greg? That's tough question to answer because he doesn't show his face onscreen, but he sounds like some of the other voice actors who've done videos for products like this. I wouldn't be surprised if he's done this sort of thing before.
He claims to have worked as "medical librarian at one of the most prestigious universities for over 30 years". Most medical researchers - real ones, I mean - aren't shy about telling you where they've worked, but poor Greg is a bit shy. The name "Greg Peterson" is generic enough to make verification of his identity very difficult, if not impossible. Medical librarians, unlike medical doctors and surgeons, aren't listed in a central database that I can find.
Anyway, Greg claims that his tinnitus began about ten years ago. He didn't know what it was and it was driving him crazy. I'm actually surprised that a medical librarian wouldn't recognize or know about tinnitus, but whatever.
He then went to a "top-notch ear specialist" who he doesn't name. This specialist then revealed "The Secret", that tinnitus has nothing to do with the ears, but is a symptom of a much more serious problem. This isn't a new claim and I've blogged about this before. Essentially, the argument is that there's something wrong in your body, specifically in your brain. Rather than being something bad, tinnitus is supposedly an alarm going-off to warn you about this illness. The claim is that if you treat the underlying illness, the tinnitus will go away. Peterson goes further by stating that if you started having tinnitus while you were suffering from a cold or flu-like illness, then you need to go to your doctor immediately because you might be suffering from meningitis!
Okay, calm down. While meningitis has been known to cause tinnitus, tinnitus isn't a symptom of meningitis. If you want to know what the symptoms of meningitis really are, go to this website.
So, following in the footsteps of Tinnitus 911, Silencis Pro and Tinnitus Miracle, Ear Clear Plus is taking an old claim and trying to make it new again.
The Super-Secret Side
A lot of people like books and movies about spies, murder mysteries and conspiracies. Greg Peterson then injects a great big helping of this during his presentation by claiming that a cure does exist for tinnitus, but is being kept secret and is only being given to treat The Elite. Start watching the video at 23 minutes, 14 seconds and you'll hear about the Secret Cure that the US Government reserves for use only by Mensa members and other people in the Secret Brain Trust, leaving the rest of us peasants to suffer with tinnitus for our entire lives. Supposedly, Mensa members have access to The Cure because the US Government needs these super-smart people and tinnitus would interfere with their abilit to think clearly.
So, these two selfless individuals decided to take matters into their own hands. They stole and replicated the formula, making sure that the ingredients exactly matched those of the Secret Formula that The Elites had selfishly kept for themselves. They did all this at the risk of losing their jobs, going to prison or even being killed!
Greg even claims that Big Pharma is hunting him and Mr Parker "like dogs" for releasing this miracle cure and that Ear Clear Plus has "sent shockwaves through the medical establishment", which somehow escaped the notice of news organizations around the country and the ever-watchful membership at TinnitusTalk. As with previous "cures" for tinnitus, Greg makes the claim that Big Pharma is getting rich from selling drugs, while doctors get wealthy from performing surgical procedures, even though, as I have so often said, no medicines or surgeries are prescribed to treat tinnitus.
This story reads like a cheap spy novel. Of course, it's all bullshit.
Let's understand something about Mensa and high IQs: having a higher-than-average IQ does not make you smarter than everyone else. At least, that's what Yale University has to say on this topic. Also, if Mensa needed some sort of miracle cure for anything, it wouldn't be tinnitus, it would be Asperger's Syndrome, while afflicts a disproportionate percentage of their members.
Greg's claims that "They" are out to get him before he can reveal the Super-Secret Formula to the Unwashed Masses of the World, falls pretty flat when you consider that an ad posted on dctribune.com is how I discovered this web page in the first place. Add to that the fact that even though he tries to sound like we should hurry before "They" take down his site, it's been up for over a year and the video was posted on YouTube in October 2018. So, either a) Greg is lying or b) the Elite don't know how to pull a video off YouTube, block his ads and hack his website. Take your pick.
The Websites
You may have noticed that the link to the main web page is unusually long. I tried going to tinnitustrick.com to see what was there and the main page is blank. However, that didn't stop me from digging-around.
Not surprisingly, tinnitustrick.com is anonymously registered through GoDaddy and the listed registrant is Domains By proxy, LLC.
Okay. that seems like a brick wall to most people, but not to me. I ran a check of the site's IP address and got this result: 185.62.238.21 (c38336.sgvps.net).
What does that mean? It tells me that the site uses a webhosting platform from Siteground, a company with offices in the USA, United Kingdom, Spain and Bulgaria. The IP trace reveals that the website is actually run out of Sofia, Bulgaria. So, it's a Bulgarian-owned site, not an American one. So, unless Greg Peterson's wife or Mr Parker is from Bulgaria, I'd guess that this whole thing is a scam.
"But, wait, Duane!", you might be saying or thinking, "Who is actually manufacturing and shipping Ear Clear Plus to my home? It can't be coming all the way from Bulgaria, right?" I'm glad you asked/thought.
The website allianceorganicsusa.com, the company sending you the shipment of Ear Clear Plus, is also anonymously registered by Domains By Proxy, LLC and its IP address is exactly the same as for tinnitustrick.com which, as I said, is in Sofia, Bulgaria.
I'll take a guess here and state that they probably have an American company to manufacture and ship the product, though I don't know which one. It doesn't really matter. Ultimately, the profits will find their way back to Bulgaria.
A Final Word
In my opinion, the people behind Ear Clear Plus copied the presentations of all previous "tinnitus cures", threw them into a blender and poured the resulting mixture onto their website and video. Almost nothing is different about Ear Clear Plus' approach compared to the others.
The main differences were the detail they went into regarding Greg Peterson's suicide attempt and the conversation between Greg and Mr Parker, which sounds like someone is an aspiring writer who thinks that going into so much detail somehow makes the product's claims more believable.
Let's make a list:
- Tinnitus made the speaker feel suicidal? It's been done
- Speaker had attempted suicide? It's been done.
- Speaker alleges that Big Pharma actively stopping a cure for tinnitus? It's been done.
- Speaker claims doctors don't care because they get rich prescribing tests, drugs and surgery? It's been done.
- Secret government conspiracy hiding the cure for tinnitus? It's been done.
- Speaker claims to have done their own research and invented the cure themselves from all-natural ingredients? It's been done.
- Speaker claims that we should hurry-up because Big Pharma, the government, etc will takedown their website very soon? It's been done.
I could keep going, but I think my point has been made.
I keep looking for new "tinnitus cures" to see if/when someone will do something different.
Imagine my disappointment with Ear Clear Plus' pathetic efforts.
Duane Browning
