{"id":14171,"date":"2013-09-19T03:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=14171"},"modified":"2013-09-19T03:00:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T08:00:42","slug":"knock-me-down-with-a-feather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14171","title":{"rendered":"Knock Me Down With a Feather*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*Knocking me down with a feather is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent disease.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2013\/09\/130916204222.htm\">Copper Bracelets, Magnetic Wrist Straps Fail to Help Rheumatoid Arthritis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/26\">noted a long time ago<\/a> that based on the proposed mechanism, there was no basis to expect magnetic bracelets to work. No real surprise that they don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The research published in PLOS ONE, show that both the standard magnetic wrist strap and the copper bracelet provided no meaningful therapeutic effects beyond those of a placebo, which was not magnetic and did not contain copper.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like that they point this out about the placebos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Knocking me down with a feather is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent disease. Copper Bracelets, Magnetic Wrist Straps Fail to Help Rheumatoid Arthritis I had noted a long time ago that based on the proposed mechanism, there &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14171\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-body"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}