Comment · Thu, December 18, 2014 · Ceretropic
Noohack.com example of hyperbolic exaggerating language.
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theskepticalidealist · 60 points
Sorry to call you out Noohack, but it pisses me off to see companies do this. You're new and you should not go down this road. You're not the only company that exaggerates the effects of nootropics, but this is one of the worst examples I've seen in a while, barring a few notable exceptions.
Oxiracetam does not give you a photographic memory, no "nootropic" does, at least not yet. (And no, saying "near" doesn't help). This is such an exaggeration it might as well be a lie. The old Nootropics.co.uk used to sell similar products (pressed pills of pure powder), but from what I saw they only repeated what the scientific literature said and gave you links to all those studies if you wanted to see them. There's many ways to make a substance sound more effective than it is in a much more honest way.
I expect most people that come to the site anyway will be people that already know about the substance and just want a good deal from a trustworthy vendor. If people (are stupid enough) to buy a product without researching it first, they will be disappointed and you'll have to deal with the complaints and you may even put someone off nootropics com…
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theskepticalidealist · 1 points
You see that's my point, I'd say you did the right thing because its hard to argue with "well that's what the study/scientific literature calls it". I expect it would have been hard to come up with a name when its effects are more unclear, its not like modafinil where you can just take words like "alert" and "wakeful" and go to the thesaurus and start sticking bits of words together.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic
I was going to base the name off Cerebrolysin, since that is the mechanism it is trying to improve. But remember, I got it synthesized without knowing if it would work or not. And I also thought about new users, and what a marketable name might do to their risk assessment. P21 is pretty clinical, so that leads to less people wanting to try it solely for the name.