The overlap of people who read this and people who believe in new agey medicine has got to be really fucking small, but I suspect at least one or two of you might believe that there’s some credibility to things like the Q-Ray bracelet or other similar magnetized jewelry. I have a cruel streak in this department. I love compromising placebo effects. So here is a short and clear article that unintentionally explains exactly why magnetic jewelry is bullshit. “Does MRI attract the iron in your blood? (No.)”
[Fortinbras gains 200 pounds and grows his hair three feet long.]
October 18, 2008 at 11:31 am
But Magneto can! That scene in the second X-Men movie made me so happy, because I’d always wondered whether Magneto could manipulate the iron in people’s blood.