Time & Perspective Quote by Alex Chiu

The sentence strains for legitimacy the way late-night infomercials strain for gravitas: by invoking “medical researchers all over the world” while offering nothing you can actually verify. Chiu’s intent is plainly promotional, but it’s promotional in a particular, modern register - the DIY authority of the internet entrepreneur who can’t cite journals, so he cites emails. “They email me” is doing a lot of work here. It sidesteps peer review, institutions, and even names, swapping them for a private pipeline of validation where the audience has no access to the source and no way to check the chain of custody.

The subtext is a quiet inversion of how science earns trust. In real medical research, results travel outward through methods, data, and replication. Here, results travel inward to the inventor, who then selectively “post[s] their results sometimes.” That “sometimes” is almost more revealing than the grand claim. It signals curation and asymmetry: Chiu controls what becomes public, which is exactly the opposite of the transparency implied by “tested and researched.”

Context matters: this is the rhetoric of fringe health tech in the early web era, when a personal site could mimic the aesthetic of expertise and a global audience could be reached without gatekeepers. The line borrows the language of credibility (“tested,” “researched,” “medical researchers”) to sell something that, as presented, can’t be audited. It’s not science; it’s the performance of science, with the inventor cast as both subject and editor.