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The BunkHouse: Water pseudoscience gallery. Junk science in the marketplace This index lists some of the companies, products, processes and people whose names I have come across in my explorations of water-related pseudoscience and quackery. The links in the left column take you to the sites that promote the product. Because many of these sites tend to be rather evanescent, I am unable to keep all of these links up to date. The links in the middle column are to locations in my site that provide debunking information on a particular "technology". U.S. Referring page: Water pseudoscience home. Water pseudoscience. Science is defined as a systematically ordered body of known facts, and regulation for obtaining and ordering further knowledge.

Not all information presented as science or 'known fact' is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. Particularly on the World Wide Web, a lot of hoaxes and misunderstandings circulate. These hoaxes presented as fact are called pseudoscience. On this page, we present a number of known hoaxes and myths concerning water, specifically water composition, drinking water, and water flows. Water composition Structure Altered Water (SAW) Many claims are made when it comes to water, but none were so unmistakably proven wrong, as the claim that SAW was good for our health.

Now, we want to focus on one of the claims concerning water cluster alterations, specifically. We want to pay attention to one case specifically, namely that of Johan Grander. Oxygizer water It is said that drinking water enriched with oxygen is healthy, particularly for people practicing sports. Water flows. Water pseudoscience. Cleaning industry myths debunked – part 1 – FM Magazine.

Green washing undermines the credibility of products with genuine environmental credentials, and creates confusion and misinformation about chemicals in general. PAUL AGAR of Agar Cleaning Systems clears up some of this confusion by looking at some common misconceptions. Chemical selection is a major focal point in commercial cleaning at present, and in the drive towards green cleaning, products that minimise environmental impact are in demand.

Marketers have seen an opportunity in this, leading to steady growth in the offering of products positioned as alternatives to chemicals, or that supposedly do away with chemicals altogether. Unfortunately, some have taken advantage of the situation to offer products labelled in a way to suggest that they are not ‘toxic’ chemicals, or that they are a natural alternative to chemicals, when in fact they offer no real benefit compared with what seem to have become known as ‘traditional’ products. This phenomenon is known as ‘green washing’. "Ionized" and alkaline water: snake oil on tap. "Ionized water" is one of many products and panaceas that the wonky-water wellness industry flogs onto the large segment of the general public that lacks the scientific background to distinguish scientific fact from pseudoscientific hype when the two are closely intertwined.

The purpose of this page is to critically examine some of the claims about "ionized" and alkaline waters from the standpoint of modern chemistry and physiology in order to provide you with the information you need to make your own informed decision before opening your wallets to the hucksters of these products and whose claims are totally lacking in scientific support. What most of these outfits actually sell are grossly overpriced electrical devices that purport to produce "ionized" and alkaline water by the process of electrolysis. In multi-level marketing scams, the parent company keeps a low profile and makes few claims that would attract the scrutiny of regulators such as the U.S. FTC. U.S. The bottom line S.