Re: OT: How-Microwaved-Water-Kills-Plants-After-Just-Days

[Guest guest]

http://www.snopes.com/science/microwave/plants.asp

On another group I am part of someone is trying to redo this experiment and

allow it to be blind. So he doesn't know which water is the microwave

water, which is tap and which is boiled. He is doing three waters - not

just two. He is having his son do the waters and put them in containers.

Plants are A, B, C ... waters a, b, c ... and he won't know which water is

which until the experiment is over. Since there have been studies that

intent, talking to plants, etc can have an impact they are trying to

eliminate this possible bias. I think they are also doing two or three

plants per water type as there is always per plant variability too even

when everything else is the same.

I'll let you know when they report back.

I got rid of my microwave awhile ago. I never really used it for food

anyway, mostly to heat my hot packs, but it bothered me to even have it in

the house, so I gave it away.

Jaxi

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 11:22 AM, N. Rutledge <

charlier1955@...> wrote:

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> In a science fair project, Arielle Reynolds a secondary school student in

> Sussex, demonstrated the effects of micro waved water fed to two

> genetically identical plants over a period of nine days. This is a great

> article which includes a good overview of the health hazards of Microwave

> ovens, the Russian research on the subject, and a summary with photographs

> of the students experiment. I am very excited about students doing this

> experiment, especially homeschoolers. This experiment can be done as a

> proper double blind experiment, by having one student set up the plants and

> water, marking the bottles A and B, and having the second student taking

> the bottles and marking the plants A and B, and the first student not even

> being in the same building as the second student until the 9 days are over.

> Fantastic. CharlieExeland, WI Some time ago, I stopped using a mirowave

> for everthing except heating water for coffee. I am completely done now.

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http://preventdisease.com/news/12/041712_Students-Experiment-Shows-How-Microwave\

d-Water-Kills-Plants-After-Just-Days.shtml

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[Guest guest]

I used to judge high school/middle school science fairs. I love that kids and

their families get involved in these types of things. The real issue here is not

'double blind' but really the lack of a good sample size. One plant, or even

three for that matter is way too small. You also need a control group. The whole

thing needs to be done with say, 100 plants or more to make it even close to

valid and some measurements should be taken of size, mass, etc.

Have fun and good luck!

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> http://www.snopes.com/science/microwave/plants.asp

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> On another group I am part of someone is trying to redo this experiment and

> allow it to be blind. So he doesn't know which water is the microwave

> water, which is tap and which is boiled. He is doing three waters - not

> just two.

[Guest guest]

Unfortunately this " study " is false. It has been disproved on snopes.com as

well as a few other sites.

[Guest guest]

I've tried this several times on my plants and they thrive just like they do on

filtered water, rain water and tap water - they take what they can get and react

the same (well, they do like the rain water the best). No difference.

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> Unfortunately this " study " is false. It has been disproved on snopes.com as

well as a few other sites.

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