[sdiy] [OT] spiral water!

[asfi at eol.ca]

Oh look, we're not the only folks to be surprised by spiral nuttiness:

> Ben Goldacre
> Saturday September 24, 2005
> The Guardian
>
> The au pair said something very funny about my dinner parties the other day:
> oh hang on, wrong column. Didn't they tell you? We're all written by the
> same person. So I've been reading the BBC's health website - on the
> importance of drinking water - and it seems we missed a very exciting 
> discovery: "Implosion researchers have found that if water is put through
> a spiral, its electrical field changes and it then appears to have a potent,
> restorative effect on cells."
>
> This, speaking as someone who now writes for the news pages, is "news".
> They even have further details on the water research: "In one study,
> seedlings watered with spiralised water grew significantly faster, higher
> and stronger than those given ordinary water."

Read the whole shebang here....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/story/0,12980,1578498,00.html

- Colin Hinz
  Toronto, Canada
  (but temporarily in Vancouver, BC)