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How about the fact that we don't fully understand liquid water?

Good point, another point is CO2 is heavier than air, so it stays down, not up where it would be blocking the heat from escaping. That's also missing from pretty much every "Green" article.

It's quite a bit more complex than that.....

WHEREAS, the University of Oklahoma is a publicly funded institution which should be open to all ideas

Hey, I think that U. Oklahoma should teach intelligent design / creationism in a science class. Preferably in the same class as free energy, structure-altered water, astrology / geocentrism, and other similar "sciences" *.

After all, since they're publicly funded, they should be "open to all ideas"... even the ones that are provably stupid. (* of course, the actual class would be teaching logical methods and showing how to debunk these pseudo-sciences).

You think Kinoki foot pads are a scam? Well, I've got one that may just top that.

In magazines I've bought off the newsstands, I've seen an ad for a company purporting to have a machine that makes some kind of "enhanced" water, which supposedly has all kinds of miraculous health benefits. They have testimonials from people whose arthritic fingers were freed up, cancers beaten down, and the like. Now, the machine supposedly works by rapidly heating and cooling ordinary water, with the end result being that the angle of the hydrogen bonds is changed to 114 degrees (the natural angle is 104.4). The enhanced water is supposed to somehow be easier for the body to use in fighting disease. They even claim that adding a few drops to whatever else you drink can have healthful benefits.

Now, the ad doesn't come right out and say what this water processor costs, they instead urge you to write for more information. But, they WILL sell you a bottle of the enhanced health water, in a champaigne-style bottle no less, for something like $30 a pop.

As absurd as these claims might be, the REALLY sad thing about this is that the magazines they advertise in are SCIENCE -oriented... Science Illustrated, Popular Science, Discover, and others...

By the way, from what I've read, the machine is little more than a glorified distiller, and the pseudo-science claims of the company have been thoroughly debunked. (One such debunking: http://www.chem1.com/CQ/johnellisbunk.html.)

There's a fairly extensive list of water-related pseudo science listed here, as well as a specific page on ionized water.

I ran across it today when researching the product. I have a coworker whose daughter suffers from ulcerative colitis and I'm always on the lookout for odd breakthroughs. I think the emphasis for this one is on "odd".

There's a fairly extensive list of water-related pseudo science listed here, as well as a specific page on ionized water.

I ran across it today when researching the product. I have a coworker whose daughter suffers from ulcerative colitis and I'm always on the lookout for odd breakthroughs. I think the emphasis for this one is on "odd".

It's probably Quackery...

I direct you here

Where it is amply explained that ionizing salt water can only create chlorinated water, or bleach, which, of course, ARE good antibacterials, but are also *gasp* oxidants. Why the SHOCK!