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Population and magnetic fields proves young Earth

Population and magnetic fields proves young Earth

From Religion is Man-Made
http://religionismanmade.blogspot.com/2012/02/population-and-magnetic-fields-proves.html
2/4/2012 3:17:00 AM
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Population (and magnetic fields) proves young Earth -- debunked

Population (and magnetic fields) proves young Earth -- debunked

From Sunnyside Atheism Videos
http://www.sunnysideatheism.com/content/population-and-magnetic-fields-proves-young-earth-debunked
6/4/2010 1:00:58 PM
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Help regarding a magnetic field

Is there any difference between the size of a magnetic field and the magnitude of a magnetic field?...

From JREF Forum
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=197947&goto=newpost
1/17/2011 4:11:49 AM
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Giant Breach in Earth's Magnetic Field

Giant Breach in Earth's Magnetic Field URL: ...

From JREF Forum
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=213068&goto=newpost
6/30/2011 10:23:20 PM
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Intense Magnetic Fields Probably Formed Shortly After Big Bang,

*Intense Magnetic Fields Probably Formed Shortly After Big Bang, Researchers Say* Image:...

From AFA Forums
http://www.atheistfoundation.org.au/forums/showthread.php?t=11747&goto=newpost
9/14/2011 6:29:59 AM
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Nibiru, Planet X and the Doomsday Magnetic Field

Hey all. A friend of mine is into this Nibiru collision/magnetic field disruption baloney, and...

From JREF Forum
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=234314&goto=newpost
4/17/2012 12:36:19 AM
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Why is the magnetic field perpendicular to the electric?

The other day I read that the magnetic field is "actually" a relativistic effect of the electric...

From JREF Forum
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=229186&goto=newpost
1/29/2012 8:34:10 PM
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CME will likely hit Earth’s magnetic field in a day or so

Polar geomagnetic storms are underway following the arrival of a coronal mass ejection (CME) on March 7th at approximately 0400 UT, according to Spaceweather.com … GEOMAGNETIC STORM UPDATE: A CME propelled toward Earth by this morning’s X5-class solar flare is expected to reach our planet on March 8th at 0625 UT (+/- 7 hr). Analysts at the ...Click to read more...

From Skeptical Science
http://www.skeptical-science.com/science/cme-hit-earths-magnetic-field-day/
3/8/2012 5:17:50 AM
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The First Measurement Of Intergalactic Magnetic Fields « D.669: Neopallium

A recent discovery made earlier this month by astrophysicists based in Californian institutions has provided the first strong evidence for what they call ‘the signs of primordial magnetic fields in deep space that have permeated between galaxies since the very earliest moments of the Universe.’ It is hoped that these discoveries will help improve the [...]

From The Call of Troythulu
http://kestalusrealm.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/the-first-measurement-of-intergalactic-magnetic-fields-«-d-669-neopallium/
9/28/2010 9:32:10 PM
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Magnetic fields; apparently the OLD school, do not comprehend such phenomenon.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101110171426.htm *Novel Type of Magnetic Wave...

From JREF Forum
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=191538&goto=newpost
11/11/2010 2:17:35 PM
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Skepticality #172 - Magnetic Force - Interview: Scott Hannahs

This week's guest on Skepticality is Dr. Scott Hannahs, the Director of DC Field Instrumentation and Facilities National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Find out a bit about what it is like to work with the worlds most powerful magnet, and what types of experiments require such a powerful bit of scientific equipment and what discoveries and research comes out of the science of magnetic fields.

From Skepticality:The Official Podcast of Skeptic Magazine
http://skepticality.libsyn.com/skepticality-172-magnetic-force-interview-scott-hannahs
12/14/2011 9:54:49 AM
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do magnetic fields decay?

I used that exact question on google and found answers about some weird dating on Earth. I presume...

From JREF Forum
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=232930&goto=newpost
3/25/2012 3:56:17 AM
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magnetic fields, birds and chakras

I'm not usually the sort to entertain such baseless speculation but things really did seem to match up in this case and it isn't a re-post for once. A friend and I were drinking and he mentioned that he's able to perceive a faint glow around other people this was the second time he'd mentioned it and i wrote the first time off as BS but I had recently read an article saying that birds are able to orient themselves to fly south for the winter because they "see" magnetic fields due to magnetic particles being stimulated in their eyes. Is it possible that this could happen in humans as well?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13811-birds-can-see-the-earths-magnetic-field.html

I asked him what color this glow was for various friends in the room and a quick search of the corresponding color in the set of Hindu [...]

From Skeptic's Subreddit
http://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/pwd0a/magnetic_fields_birds_and_chakras/
2/19/2012 10:42:17 PM
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Energy trapped in a magnetic field (Ghosts)

I don't believe in being able to interact with Ghosts. I believe that IF there are apparitions,...

From JREF Forum
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=201622&goto=newpost
2/22/2011 8:41:57 PM
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Wine tasting and the Earth's Magnetic Field

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/08/ is a very recent piece in Derek Lowe's wonderful blog...

From JREF Forum
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=216613&goto=newpost
8/12/2011 6:20:01 AM
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Creationist's view of Earth's magnetic field: Help please!

I say creationist's rather than creationists' because what follows may just be his opinion for all...

From JREF Forum
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=222288&goto=newpost
10/23/2011 11:01:21 AM
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Magnetic fields and Scale in keeping water heaters in good shape

K and J magnetics, from whom I get my rather neat selection of Very Powerful Magnets in Quantity ...

From JREF Forum
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=233753&goto=newpost
4/8/2012 6:58:03 PM
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Magnetic self-reversal

I have encountered a creationist article that promotes the idea that the magnetic field of the...

From JREF Forum
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=179009&goto=newpost
6/26/2010 6:20:03 AM
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Help me tear down the methodology of this homeopathy paper. Bonus: have me ask a quack your question

I am attending a conference on electromagnetic fields in biological systems tomorrow. Among some fairly conventional topics like the effects of magnetic fields on the germination of seeds or use of paramagnetics in hyperthermic therapies there is one gem: Efficacy of homeopathic remedies on magnetic fields in the MHZ-region by magnetic resonance by Karin Lenger.

It appears to be based on this 'publication': Homeopathic potencies identified by a new magnetic resonance method. . Now, I am not a physicist, but even skimming through this article raises some red flags for me (and I am disregarding the journal it was published in or the apparent lack of peer review). E.g. magnetic photons? Aren't those hypothetical particles which existance is unproven?

[...]

From Skeptic's Subreddit
http://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/hfaob/help_me_tear_down_the_methodology_of_this/
5/20/2011 5:48:54 AM
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Why Brain Scanners Make Your Head Spin

Here at Neuroskeptic we see a lot of dizzyingly bad (and sometimes even good) neuroscience, but did you know that brain scanners can literally send your head into a spin? A new paper explains why, with implications for all MRI researchers.


MRI scanners rely on extremely powerful magnetic fields. This is why you can't take metal objects into the scanner room, as they'd be pulled into it. Yet the fields can also exert other kinds of effects on the body.

I'd always been told that static, unchanging magnetic fields [...]

From Neuroskeptic
http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2011/09/why-brain-scanners-make-your-head-spin.html
9/29/2011 7:57:00 PM
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Tripping the light fantastic

In the past few months the Sun has come roaring back to life, blasting out flares and fierce waves of subatomic particles. These space storms are caused by the magnetic field of the Sun, which stores huge amounts of energy. Near sunspots the magnetic field lines get tangled and can suddenly erupt, hurling that energy [...]

From Bad Astronomy
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BadAstronomyBlog/~3/QaDjyA4LY3g/
11/4/2011 12:00:14 AM
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Moon Magnetism Mystery

A 40 year old moon mystery may have been solved recently. It looks like we may have two viable theories why some moon rocks are magnetized even though the moon has no magnetic field. Not only that, up until recently, there was no theoretical mechanism by which the moon could even create a magnetic field. [...]

From The Rogues Gallery
http://theness.com/roguesgallery/index.php/general-science/moon-magnetism-mystery/
12/10/2011 8:13:02 AM
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First earthward-heading solar flare of the cycle

In the late afternoon yesterday (February 13, 2011) sunspot 1158 released a decent-sized solar flare, a magnetic eruption on the Sun. This was classified as an M6.6 flare, which is above average in explosive energy, but hardly up to the nastiness we experienced in late 2003 when the Sun was throwing an epic hissy fit.

The image here is from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, and shows the sunspot in the extreme ultraviolet part of the spectrum. This is the first solar flare sending energy [...]

From Bad Astronomy
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BadAstronomyBlog/~3/qMFGVnJDOKA/
2/15/2011 6:00:50 AM
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Committee for Skeptical Inquiry | Power Lines and Cancer, Distant Healing and Health Care: Magnetism Misrepresented and Misunderstood

The 1990s fear that background magnetic fields—hundreds of times weaker than Earth’s magnetic field—could cause cancer has been replaced. Twenty years later, advertisements by licensed hospitals claim that humans can be trained to emit and manipulate these same energies to initiate healing.

In the early 1990s, the New Yorker magazine published three articles by Paul Brodeur describing claims that background radiation from nearby power lines caused an outbreak of leukemia in children living in Denver, Colorado (Brodeur 1990a, 1990b, 1992).

In 2008, the Journal of Orthopaedic Research published a claim that therapeutic touch2 (TT) practitioners at the University of Connecticut Health Center were able to diminish the growth of human osteosarcoma (cancer) cells by using their hands to manipulate energy fields surrounding the [...]

From Committee for Skeptical Inquiry | Main Feed
http://www.csicop.org//si/show/power_lines_and_cancer_distant_healing_and_health_care_magnetism_misreprese
1/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
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Committee for Skeptical Inquiry | Magnetic Healing: An Old Scam That Never Dies

The notion that magnets can be used for healing has existed since humans discovered them.

Magnetic charms, bracelets, insoles, and braces remain popular and are sold with claims that they improve athletic performance, relieve arthritis pain, increase energy, and pretty much treat whatever symptoms you might have. These products may seem modern and high-tech, but similar devices and claims have been around for centuries.

The notion that magnets can be used for healing has existed since humans discovered them. Several ancient cultures, such as those of Egypt, Greece, and China, discovered natural magnetic rocks, or lodestones. People had a hard time explaining the unusual properties of these rocks given the scientific knowledge of the time, so they came up with fanciful explanations like “minerals have souls too.” This was compatible with the general belief that everything has an “essence.”

It was also observed that this magnetic [...]

From Committee for Skeptical Inquiry | Main Feed
http://www.csicop.org//si/show/magnetic_healing_an_old_scam_that_never_dies
1/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
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