/oss/taxonomy/term/2639/all en /oss/article/health-quackery/water-quackery <p style="text-align:justify"><a href="http://blogs.mcgill.ca/oss/?attachment_id=3685" rel="attachment wp-att-3685"><img alt="H20" height="150" src="http://blogs.mcgill.ca/oss/files/2012/11/water-150x150.jpg" width="150" /></a>Water is essential to life. We all know that. But did you know that it can also cure all kinds of disease? Not ordinary water of course, the magic lies in drinking “clustered water.” This huckster concept is so bizarre that it is difficult to explain. The claims go along the following lines. “When we are young, our bodies are full of clustered water,” so the quacks say, “and as we grow older, our clustered water becomes physically bound to other molecular structures and becomes unable to move freely through cell walls.” This is a real problem, they explain, because it is clustered water that delivers oxygen, nutrients, proteins and enzymes to a cell and removes toxins. Needless to say, this is preposterous gobbledy gook. But, let’s go on. So what, according to the charlatans, are we to do? Fortify ourselves by drinking clustered water! Luckily for us, these good Samaritans have invented various devices that can take ordinary water and rearrange its molecules to form the healing clusters. <a href="http://blogs.mcgill.ca/oss/2012/11/28/water-quackery/">Read more</a></p> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:11:07 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 1835 at /oss