I’ll spare you my ramblings on Dr. Masaru Emoto and let someone else speak about him.

From http://www.is-masaru-emoto-for-real.com/

After the lengthy review of Emoto’s research methods and results, I have come to believe that Dr. Emoto is offering pseudoscience to the masses in the guise of defensible research. *Only time and review by others will tell if there is any truth at the heart of Mr. Emoto’s claims, as Emoto himself thoroughly believes in his findings but does not value the scientific method or community. What is truly fearsome is the great numbers of people that accept his words as proven facts without looking deeper to find out if his claims are truly justified. While I respect Dr. Emoto’s desire to save the Earth’s water from contamination and pollution, unless he can produce a scientific paper and get it published in a scientific journal, I believe that he will continue to be ignored by the scientific community, and his claims will never be soundly proved or disproved.

Kristopher Setchfield, BA, Health Science
Natural Science Department
Castleton State College, Vermont
December 20, 2005

*He still has not published peer reviewed experiment results in a reputable scientific journal. His one claim to “peer reviewed” was submitted as a “photo essay” - not as experiment results submission. And that was back before 2004 - lots of claims, no publication. No results repeated and verified. No double blind studies. Why is that Mr. Emoto?

And for people who think I’m being hard on him or close-minded - go ahead and Google his name. You might notice a whole slew of websites selling stuff - stickers, water, seminars, certificates - stuff. And here or there you’ll find a couple people like me speaking out. Feed the money machine - it’s ok - because while you’re feeding it, there are real discoveries being made within real science. And THAT is what matters.

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