A NZ company "Biomag" sell wool underlay products which have embedded
magnets which are said by them to impart all the marvellous things that
people claim that magnets impart. (These usually tend towards being all the
things you could reasonably or unreasonably hope may be caused by some
marvellous science based* effect while you slept. (* benefits measureable,
quantifiable, repeatable, ...) Whether any of the hoped for effects
genuinely occur is both tbd and extraordinarily unlikely. Alas.

Biomag at some stage added  magic magnetic healing bracelets to their
product line.

In June a decision by the NZ advertising standards committee suggested that
they were being naughty and would they please scrap the ads. Another recent
similar decision means that as of right now they make little or know
mention of magnets or claims for their efficacy. Odds are this will not
last.

Ignoring the unnecessarily impolite heading ... :

http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2013/06/advertising-standards-authority-hands-bio=
mag-their-arses/#axzz2hNu0Tbgp

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Q: Can magnets affect biological functioning?
A: Yes, some can in some ways.

Q: Do any of the permanent magnet healing or positively bio-acting
permanent magnet based devices do what they claim?
A: Conceivably some product somewhere might, but for practical purposes any
"magnetic healing" device sold is either a con job or sold by the
well-intended- self-deluded.

Some effects or claimed effects are self-excluded from assessment using
'the Scientific Method' [tm] and people get pointlessly exercised demanding
that such should 'follow the rules'. For such that do not work that way you
instead use the rules that they demand, or you go and examine something
else - these are not the affects you want, nothing to see here, move along.

However, magnetic healing / pain relief /general vitiation is not included
in such an exclusion. If they work at all they use forces of nature and are
measurable, quantifiable and able to be assessed 'scientifically'. No such
claimed effects of permanent magnets have ever survived the test of double
blind scientific study and peer review. Countless claims are made. People
offer eg "money back if not satisfied" , which may sound like it guarantees
the product must work. Alas, human nature ensures it doesn't. Any number of
product that do little or nothing and that have full money back guarantees
still make money for the sellers. Sadly.



      Russell
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