{"id":7006,"date":"2023-12-21T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/737330028486049792-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:50:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:50:24","slug":"737330028486049792-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/737330028486049792-2\/","title":{"rendered":"737330028486049792"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf='{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masaru_Emoto\",\"display_url\":\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masaru_Emoto\",\"title\":\"Masaru Emoto - Wikipedia\",\"description\":\"Masaru Emoto - Wikipedia\",\"site_name\":\"en.m.wikipedia.org\",\"poster\":[{\"media_key\":\"8c7831048093afdffef226e15aac2b32:453bda073daed386-58\",\"type\":\"image\/jpeg\",\"width\":256,\"height\":300}]}'><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masaru_Emoto\" target=\"_blank\">Masaru Emoto &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommentators have criticized Emoto for insufficient experimental controls and for not sharing enough details of his experiments with the scientific community. He has also been criticized for designing his experiments in ways that permit manipulation or human error. Biochemist and Director of Microscopy at University College Cork William Reville wrote, \u201cIt is very unlikely that there is any reality behind Emoto\u2019s claims.\u201d Reville noted the lack of scientific publication and pointed out that anyone who could demonstrate such phenomena would become immediately famous and probably wealthy. <\/p>\n<p>Writing about Emoto\u2019s ideas in the Skeptical Inquirer, physician Harriet A. Hall concluded that it was \u201chard to see how anyone could mistake it for science\u201d. In 2003, James Randi published an invitation on his website, offering Emoto to take the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge, in which Emoto could have received US$1,000,000 if he had been able to reproduce the experiment under test conditions agreed to by both parties. Randi did not receive a response.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masaru Emoto &#8211; Wikipedia \u201cCommentators have criticized Emoto for insufficient &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12749],"tags":[582,655,726,1235,667,644,825,666,9565,638,3,583,4489,334],"class_list":["post-7006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-bullshit","tag-consciousness","tag-fake","tag-greed","tag-japanese","tag-lie","tag-masaru-emote","tag-money","tag-quote-of-the-day","tag-science","tag-snake-oil","tag-water"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>737330028486049792 - Do Not Destroy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/737330028486049792-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"737330028486049792 - 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