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The magnetic health industry depends on perpetrating and perpetuating false information about the beneficial effects of static magnets. Telling lies is not, in itself, a crime... but telling lies in order to induce people to buy your useless product is illegal. It's called "theft by deception;."

How can you tell if some person who is trying to convince you to buy some product that's supposed to improve your health based on the use of static magnets is giving you erroneous information? Just look for the claims:

• They claim their product is "better" or "more effective" than other products.
  • Absent either a study demonstrating that magnets with one particular attribute are better than other magnets, or a generally accepted explanation of the mechanism by which static magnets can achieve their effects, there's no basis for stating that one product is better than another. Therefore, a claim to that effect is false.
• They claim that there's a particular mechiansm by which static magnets work, e.g. by improving circulation.
  • This most common explanation of how static magnets work is demonstrably false. As of this writing, there is no plausible explanation for the claims made about static magnets. Therefore, any statement asserting a particular mechanism by which static magnets work is false.
• They claim that the Baylor study provides sufficient reason to believe that the benefits of static magnetic therapy are applicabele outside of the narrow type of pain covered by that study.
  • In other words, if you never had polio, there's no study showing that static magnets will help with your pain.
• They claim that static magnets will help reduce your pain.
  • This is basically a lie unless they know you had been infected with polio. They're telling you this for only one reason, to get you to spend money to buy their magnets.

The only way for purveyors of static magnets to avoid charges of theft by deception is to claim ignorance. If they're both telling people why people should use magnetic products and also making money by selling those products, and they know there's no basis for the claim they make, that's theft by deception. Their continued "telling and selling" puts them at risk of being charged with theft by deception.

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