How's this for absolute woo?
Last edited Wed Jan 17, 2018, 08:45 AM - Edit history (1)
"Polishes" the water?
#1950: Teri Mathis
Oxygen Orchard is a company that pushes The Big Pitcher, a device that ostensibly cures Chronic Oxygen Debt Syndrome (CODS). Apparently the product, which belongs to the genus water woo, polishes customers water to enable oxygen to be absorbed through the mouth. This is apparently a good thing, since the GI tract does not absorb gases. The result is ostensibly that blood cells are hypercharged with oxygen and the bodys pH level maintained at a healthy 7.4. No, the inventor, Teri Mathis, does not have more than, shall we say, cursory knowledge of basic anatomy. If you were ever in doubt, CODS is a fully and completely non-existing condition. But Oxygen Orchards claim that people are not breathing enough and therefore have a significant debt of oxygen in the blood, which again is the primary cause of most major illnesses, is a relatively common one within the discipline of oxygen therapy pseudoscience.
http://americanloons.blogspot.ca/2018/01/1950-teri-mathis.html
On edit: The damn thing is almost $240!!!
tymorial
(3,433 posts)Danascot
(4,937 posts)The concept of the memory of water goes back to 1988 when the late Professor Jacques Benveniste published, in the international scientific journal Nature, claims that extremely high 'ultramolecular' dilutions of an antibody had effects in the human basophil degranulation test, a laboratory model of immune response. In other words, the water diluent 'remembered' the antibody long after it was gone. His findings were subsequently denounced as 'pseudoscience' and yet, despite the negative impact this had at the time, the idea has not gone away.
https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/the-memory-of-water-is-a-reality
Benveniste was a French immunologist who sought to demonstrate the plausibility of homeopathic remedies "independently of homeopathic interests" in a major scientific journal.[3] To that end, Benveniste and his team at Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM, French for National Institute of Health and Medical Research) diluted a solution of human antibodies in water to such a degree that there was virtually no possibility that a single molecule of the antibody remained in the water solution. Nonetheless, they reported, human basophils responded to the solutions just as though they had encountered the original antibody (part of the allergic reaction). The effect was reported only when the solution was shaken violently during dilution.[4] Benveniste stated: "It's like agitating a car key in the river, going miles downstream, extracting a few drops of water, and then starting one's car with the water."[5] At the time, Benveniste offered no theoretical explanation for the effect, which was later called "water memory" by a journalist reporting on the study.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_memory
DetlefK
(16,534 posts)- The method and experiment was somehow okay (IIRC infrared-spectra of water), but the data-analysis was so sloppy, it was entirely useless.
- Their diagrams were so small (bad pixel-resolution) that you couldn't read what was written on the axis. Those curves could have been anything.
What's the x-axis?
What's the y-axis?
What numbers are these???
- And the diagrams weren't even separate images. Whoever wrote this had taken a screenshot of his complete desktop, Windows XP Windows-bar and all.
"Here's my results where you can't see anything. And here's what you are supposed to be seeing."
Orange Free State
(611 posts)But it releases some. And that it what these people are doing, in excess.......
Nitram
(24,870 posts)I see more and more pseudo-scientific scams on the market. If the GOP has it's way, there will be a lot more as regulations are reduced to zero.
progressoid
(50,897 posts)uriel1972
(4,261 posts)a jade egg in your yoni?
progressoid
(50,897 posts)Last time I checked, I didn't even have a yoni!