Fatal Attraction: Magnet Woo

EPISODE 104 | Fatal Attraction: Magnet Woo

While we use magnets all the time, most of us don’t know some of the subtleties of magnetic fields and the electromagnetic force. This lack of knowledge is the perfect opening for scam artists to sell unsuspecting folks all kinds of sham cures for illnesses and injuries, opening up a wide world of woo and pseudoscientific narratives.

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SECTIONS

1. 02:56 - Come Together - What is electromagnetism?
2. 07:46 - Diesel and Dust - Magnetic water treatments, magnetic gasoline treatments, magnetic mugs
3. 15:02 - Hypnotic Tango - Mesmer and animal magnetism, the rise of hypnosis, arthritis cures, magnetic shoes
4. 24:58 - Terrible Lie - Albert Abrahms, Hercules Sanche's Electropoise, Ruth Beymer Drown and the Vibra-Ray, Georges Lakhovsky's Multiple Wave Oscillator (MWO), Thomas Galen Hieronymus's "eloptic energy", Royal Rife, Hulda Regehr Clark, Precision Herbs, H. A. Morton Whitby, Radionics and De La Warr Laboratories 
5. 41:20 - You'll Be My Toy, I'll Be Your Electricity - More quackery, Desiré Dubounet & Quantum Medicine
6. 47:22 - Baby Stick Around - Human magnets: Leonid Tenkaev and Miroslaw Magola, the Super Human/Super Brain/Magnetic Man

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info

• Electromagnetism 101 video from National Geographic
• The basic principles of electromagnetism on Electrical Apprentice
• Why does the moving of charged particles (electrons) in a wire carrying electricity produce a magnetic field? on Quora
• Magnetic water treatment and pseudoscience on AquaScams
• Non Chemical Devices: Thirty Years of Myth Busting by Timothy Keister, FAIC, CWT in Water Conditioning & Purification magazine, April 2008
• Demonstration and Evaluation of Magnetic Descalers paper by the US Army Corps of Engineers, September 2001
• Electronic Water Conditioner: Do They Work?
• First4Magnets.com 
• The True Price Of Gas: What It Should Really Cost To Fill Up on FastCompany
• The True Cost of Gasoline: $15 Per Gallon on Smart Cities Dive archived article
• Super FuelMAX® Booster Fuel Saving Device - Made in USA product page
• Super FuelMAX Marketers Settle FTC Charges from the Federal Trade Commission
• Magnetic Mug from Serenity 2000 product page
• IAMPDD Self Stirring Mug product page on Amazon
• Mesmerized by Magnetism column by Michael Shermer
• Franz Anton Mesmer in the Super-Enlightenment Digital Archive at Stanford Libraries
• Beginners Guide to the History of Hypnosis (Timeline)
• Magnets Provide Amusement, But Not Health Benefits in Science-Based Medicine
• Magnet Therapy: A Skeptical View on Quackwatch
• Questionable Ads for Magnets on Quackwatch
• Florsheim’s MagneForce Shoes on Quackwatch
• BIOflex and VITAflex health magnets
• The Electronic Reactions of Albert Abrams on American Artifacts
• Multiple Wave Oscillator - Forgotten Device that is claimed to have cured Cancer
• The Incredible Drown Case in Today's Health, April 1968
• The Incredible Drown Case on Quackwatch
• Bionuu Clinic 
• Metayantra quack products
• Polaris DD in Prague
• Multiple wave oscillator at Clinica Omega Zeta
• DIY Lakhovsky MWO (Milti Wave Oscollator) Device, Detailed Informations, Facts, Analysis
• Hieronymus Machine in the New Age Encyclopedia
• Rife Machines and Cancer
• The Cancer Cure That Worked: 50 Years of Suppression by Barry Lynes
• “The Cure for All Cancers”? Maybe Not.
• Precision Herbs on Rationalwiki
• FDA Warning Letter to Precision Herbs LLC
• Paranoia, the Destroyer – Gangstalking, Targeted Individuals & Havana Syndrome episode
• Electromagnetic hypersensitivity: a critical review of explanatory hypotheses
• Is It Possible to Be Allergic to Electricity? on Healthline
• Recognizing Dubious Health Devices
• Is it worth it? PEMF
• UVLrx Therapy Lights Up Charlatans Dealing In Medical Devices
• Questions for Pseudoscience | Magnet Therapy video on Dark Science
• Electrostatics: A non-contact force
• Silly season, silly machine
• Desire Dubounet on IMDb

• S-HE, She or He Movie 2008 the story of Desire' Dubounet and the war crimes trial of Harry S Truman video

• Is there any validity to the claim that some people are “human magnets,” with their bodies able to attract an assortment of objects?
• Strange attractors
• Miroslaw Magola YouTube channel
• Man claims he has magnetic powers, can make objects stick to body
• James Randi debunks Magnet Man video

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