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Chemistry, Magnets, & SkepticismMainstream scientists resist the idea that magnetism can affect chemistry. For example, they see any use of PM-magnets to relieve human pain as disgusting pseudoscience which should be stamped out. And the continuing controversy about a possible link between EMFs and Cancer is in part due to the widespread scientific skepticism regarding the ability of DC and low-frequency magnetic fields to affect a chemical bond. The skeptics seem to think that if such an important phenomena was real, researchers would already know about it. Up until the 1980s, research involving magnetism and chemistry was too weird to attract funding.
However, the scoffers are wrong. Research increasingly reports
evidence that EMF and permanent magnets DO have significant effects upon
chemical reactions, especially on sensitive biochemistry. This is 'taboo
science', and it causes some of the more-conventional researchers to react
with a skepticism almost approaching violence. After all, if this simple
phenomenon was missed by thousands of professional chemists, it damages
their reputations as experts and makes them look like fools. It's
especially painful to those who have loudly and publicly ridiculed these
ideas.
Evidence should have a clear voice, but when personal reputations and
"science politics" are involved, the voice of the evidence often goes
unheard. Disgust and derision take the place of curiousity and
truth-seeking, and the verification of the reported observations can
conveniently become unimportant.
At the same time, scam artists try to sell expensive magnetic devices
which most probably do not work. Where your own wallet is concerned, be
VERY skeptical.
Below are some articles and links, some of which describe simple
experiments which demonstrate unexplained effects of magnetism on
water.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES:Water Physics
Magnetic fields & Biology
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