Well d'uh!
Oct. 16th, 2009 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bellinghman'Bracelets' useless in arthritis.
Someone's finally gone and done the studies to see if what we all knew - that copper and/or magnetic bracelets have no actual effect on arthritis - is actually true, or if there might have been something in the woo.
Nope, they're pure placebo.
I do wonder where the whole myth came from in the first place. Not why it persists, because there is an entrenched industry very interested in maintaining sales. But who first persuaded someone that it worked?
Someone's finally gone and done the studies to see if what we all knew - that copper and/or magnetic bracelets have no actual effect on arthritis - is actually true, or if there might have been something in the woo.
Nope, they're pure placebo.
I do wonder where the whole myth came from in the first place. Not why it persists, because there is an entrenched industry very interested in maintaining sales. But who first persuaded someone that it worked?
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Date: 2009-10-16 11:21 pm (UTC)Presumably, they won't be appearing in high-end audio magazines, which have their own idiocies. Such as directional digital cables and the like. But which would get all upset by the horrible nasty magnetic fields.
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Date: 2009-10-20 12:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-20 12:05 pm (UTC)(Audiophiles and digital is a whole world of fail.)