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Emoto claimed that water was a "blueprint for our reality" and that emotional "energies" and "vibrations" could change its physical structure. [14] His water crystal experiments consisted of exposing water in glasses to various words, pictures, or music, then freezing it and examining the ice crystals' aesthetic properties with microscopic photography. [9]
In this paper, the field experiment conducted in 2007 consisted of the province of Hunan, where rice is a dietary staple, and the province of Gansu, where wheat is a staple. In both provinces, random households were selected and were offered their dietary staple at subsidized rates.
[500]: 41 It has since been debunked as pseudoscience [501]: 2 and part of the edifice of scientific racism. [ 502 ] Melanin theory – belief founded in the distortion of known physical properties of melanin, a natural polymer, that posits the inherent superiority of dark-skinned people and the essential inhumanity and inferiority of light ...
Visible partnered with Stacker to review research from universities, scientific journals, and news sources to identify seven common phone myths that have been debunked.
Luminiferous aether – failed to be detected by the sufficiently sensitive Michelson–Morley experiment, made obsolete by Einstein's work. Caloric theory – Lavoisier's successor to phlogiston, discredited by Rumford's and Joule's work. Contact tension – a theory on the source of electricity.
A study of media rhetorical devices used in Hunan, China found that the news articles that were opposed to trials of golden rice promoted conspiracy theories "including the view that the West was using genetic engineering to establish global control over agriculture and that GM products were instruments for genocide". [10]
Rothschild said that while those experiments were real, "That does not mean that Hurricane Milton was caused by government-controlled lasers and is being steered toward Tampa."
The Alchemist in Search of the Philosopher's Stone, by Joseph Wright, 1771. The history of pseudoscience is the study of pseudoscientific theories over time. A pseudoscience is a set of ideas that presents itself as science, while it does not meet the criteria to properly be called such.