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Commentators have criticized Emoto for insufficient experimental controls, and for not sharing enough details of his approach with the scientific community. In addition, Emoto has been criticized for designing his experiments in ways that leave them open to human error influencing his findings.
Originally posted by v01i0
reply to post by gazerstar
Emoto's findings are interesting, though he has been criticized for vague methods in his scientific experiments.
Here's what wikipedia says about mr. Emoto and his research:
Commentators have criticized Emoto for insufficient experimental controls, and for not sharing enough details of his approach with the scientific community. In addition, Emoto has been criticized for designing his experiments in ways that leave them open to human error influencing his findings.
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Personally I find it intriguing what Emoto's work suggest.
-v
[edit on 30-10-2009 by v01i0]
Originally posted by tothetenthpower
As much as I enjoy looking at his findings under a microscope, no other researchers have been able to reproduce his results,...
The hypothesis that water “treated” with intention can affect ice crystals formed from that water was pilot tested under double-blind conditions. A group of approximately 2,000 people in Tokyo focused positive intentions toward water samples located inside an electromagnetically shielded room in California. That group was unaware of similar water samples set aside in a different location as controls. Ice crystals formed from both sets of water samples were blindly identified and photographed by an analyst, and the resulting images were blindly assessed for aesthetic appeal by 100 independent judges. Results indicated that crystals from the treated water were given higher scores for aesthetic appeal than those from the control water (P = .001, one-tailed), lending support to the hypothesis.
Emoto freely acknowledges that he is not a scientist,[7] and that photographers are instructed to select the most pleasing photographs.
and the resulting images were blindly assessed for aesthetic appeal by 100 independent judges. Results indicated that crystals from the treated water were given higher scores for aesthetic appeal than those from the control water