Masaru Emoto - Water Experiments

[Evo]

So if we are agreed (sort of...) that he's not a crackpot, where does that leave the validity of this study. Does anyone know of any independent replications?

No, he's a bit of a cracked pot, there are articles everywhere saying what a crackpot he is, I'm not going to post links to all of them. You're free to believe what you want but based on what I've read of him, his beliefs and his methods, I can't see any credibility here. Not saying he's intentionally trying to be one, it's just that his methods are questionable. I mean just look at that test, it's ridiculous! It's people that let their wishes affect their work that continue to cause doubt to be shed on studies that could actually help the field of parasychology.

http://www.skepticreport.com/pseudoscience/radinbook.htm

http://skepdic.com/refuge/sheldrake.html

In a November 2005 article that critiqued the New Age movement's detachment from the mainstream scientific community, Thomas W. Clark, founder of the Center for Naturalism, criticized members of the institute. Clark wrote: "parapsychologist Dean Radin of the Institute of Noetic Sciences [willingly applies]... what humanist philosopher Paul Kurtz calls the 'transcendental temptation' [that] drives the flight from standard, peer-reviewed empiricism into the arms of a dualism that privileges the mental over the physical, the teleological over the non-purposive."[6] The skeptical organization Quackwatch includes the IONS on its list of websites it does not trust.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Noetic_Sciences

I mean come on, the Noetic Institute believes in Uri Geller.

 

[Highwaister]

Read the links and OK, point taken re Dean Radin et al. So... back to searching for some good science wrt Emoto. Independent replications anyone?