Japanese scholar Kennan Zuojuan's criticism of Jiangben
In 2007, Kai Nanzuo, a professor in the Department of Modern Sociology of Japanese Women's University and a professor in the Department of Environmental Applied Chemistry of the Department of Life Sciences of Hosei University, published "Water Know Nothing", which refuted Jiang Bensheng's findings and held that Jiang Bensheng was propagating pseudoscience. In the fifth chapter of the book, he wrote: "This kind of pseudoscience is used to teach morality. Water can understand words and people's emotions, and make children blindly believe that ... believing in pseudoscience education will lead to the destruction of the foundation of science education. One problem in Japan is that the literacy rate of science and adults is already weak, so it will be weaker. " In the tenth chapter, he wrote: "However, many adults hold the feeling that science and technology are very important". This aspect is more prominent in pseudoscience. But pseudoscience has nothing to do with science and logic, but absurdly establishes a scientific atmosphere to make people believe in pseudoscience. Being understood as a quick and explanatory mystery, rather than using scientific terms or pretending to have scientific foresight, has no scientific basis-that is, pseudoscience obviously takes advantage of the trust in science. Kennan Zuo believes that it is not obvious that Jiangben's claim that science and common sense should be correctly regarded as data is a complete mistake. But Jiangben just likes to use the word "wave" for decoration. Its pseudoscience is mostly used in product sales. Jiangben Company produces water-related products, such as special water purifiers and machines with special properties of water. At the same time, Zuo Kenan claimed that the easiest way to distinguish pseudoscience is that the words such as "wave", "* * * * sound", "cluster", "negative ion", "energy" and "activity" explained by Jiang Ben in the instruction manual, especially in the product description, are almost certainly pseudoscience. Zuo Juanjian's conclusion is that Jiangben's experiment has no scientific basis, just like a rampant "suspicious water dealer". [8]
In 2005, William A. Tiller, a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University, pointed out that Jiang Bensheng did not control the three key factors affecting water crystallization, and the experimental results were not supported by evidence. [9] Dr. Mae-Wan Ho of the British Institute of Social Sciences believes that Jiangben has not provided convincing experimental steps for the scientific community. [10] At the same time, in February 2005, 65438, Vermont, USA, Kristopher Setchfield, a bachelor of health science in the Department of Natural Sciences, commented and analyzed Jiangben's experimental description, which showed that Jiangben's experimental process was unscientific. At least the experimenter who took the photo and the speaker should not be the same person, but the answers of two people who don't know the experimental results can confirm each other. In addition, the shape formation of water crystals is related to many environmental factors, especially temperature and humidity. The samples in Jiangben experiment freeze at minus 25 degrees and form water crystals at minus 5 degrees respectively. Scientific theory predicts that there are more crystal columns than crystal pieces, but there are no crystal columns in Jiangben's photos, which is very doubtful. It is also possible that Jiangben took the samples that did not support his statement. In addition, Jiang Ben did not disclose all the photos of his sample books, and no one knows whether he has hidden samples that do not support his statement. Jiangben's book also mentioned an experiment with 100 samples, but only one photo was published in the end. Jiang Ben has never published scientific reports and papers except for photo sketches. Jiang Ben didn't establish credibility in the scientific community at all, but sold goods by his own ideas. Jiangben's theory is pseudoscience, and at the same time, Jiangben's theory will continue to be ignored by the scientific community, and no second person will make his achievements. [1 1] On the other hand, in April 2006, New Scientist magazine published a long article by Robert Matthews, arguing that there was human error in Jiangben's experimental design. [12] In 2006, Gary Greenberg, MD, University College London and former assistant professor of the University of South Carolina, wrote: "As a scientist and artist ... I got the patent of 17 three-dimensional microscope ... I was very surprised when I was told about Jiang Ben's research on microscopic water crystallization, because I was not important. In addition, I found that the Master's degree and Doctor's degree awarded to Jiang Bensheng by Indian Open International University cost $500 and $350 respectively. And you don't need any courses and exams ... I really want to ask why Jiang Ben didn't publish his scientific experiments in famous academic journals that need peer review. ..... I only believe that the correct experimental method can truly understand nature and the great universe we live in. " [3]
At the same time, western academic circles also noticed that Jiangben obviously demanded the originality of the photographer rather than the rigor of the experiment for his team.
Controversy about fluctuations
First of all, it must be made clear that the fluctuation comes from Japanese characters, pronounced as はどぅ (the Roman word HADOU, the domain name of Jiang Bensheng IHM Company is HADOU). はどぅ in Japanese usually refers to English waves, that is, fluctuations in the physical sense, and fluctuations in Japan refer to vibration rather than medicine or mysticism. The two should not be confused. 2/kloc-0 At the beginning of the century, the research object of wave in therapeutic medicine was "tiny wave energy". Whether the so-called wave science is a science is controversial in the west and is regarded as mysticism. At the same time, the research history of this subject is short in the West, but it has a long history in East Asia, especially in Japan and Taiwan Province Province. The reason is that science and philosophy in East Asia have paid attention to the study of energy for thousands of years, while western science has paid attention to artificially divided entities. Especially acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine in China pay attention to the body's energy system. Even the research of traditional Chinese medicine focuses on the positive influence of plant energy on human energy balance. Wave energy only attracted the attention of the west after the emergence of quantum physics. Max Plank, one of the founders of western quantum physics, a famous German physicist and a Nobel Prize winner in physics, said: "Everything and its effects are vibrations, and there are no physical objects. All objects contain fluctuations. " The fluctuation that Planck refers to coincides with it in Japan rather than medicine.
A cracked hole
Vulnerability 1
The formation of water crystals is only related to temperature and humidity.
Kenneth Lebray, head of physics department of California Institute of Technology, is an expert in water crystallization. He explained that water molecules can form a hexagonal lattice structure. A hexagon has two hexagonal faces and six square faces. If the crystal grows in the direction of two hexagonal faces, it will become a columnar crystal. But if it grows in six positive directions, it will form a flaky hexagonal crystal. On this basis, flaky or columnar crystals can grow into more complex structures, that is, when the temperature is low enough, crystals can form various snowflakes.
He also pointed out that temperature and humidity are the two most important factors that determine the morphology and shape of water crystals. If the crystallization temperature is between -5℃ and-10℃, the crystals are more likely to form columnar or needle-like structures. At about-15℃, water crystallization tends to form flake snowflakes. The complexity of snowflakes is related to humidity. The smaller the humidity, the simpler the shape of snowflakes. These situations have nothing to do with whether the water mirror hears beautiful music or sees warm words.
Vulnerability 2
Verification results of selected photos of Jiangben experiment
In April 2006, New Scientist magazine published an analytical article by Robert Matthew. Matthew thinks that there is human error in Jiang Bensheng's experimental design: he uses selection to verify the results. He pointed out that Jiang Bensheng did not show all the samples. He only chooses photos that are beneficial to him and avoids those that are unfavorable to his experiment. For example, from 100 photos, only 1 photo that can best support its argument is selected for publication.
A researcher who exposed Jiang Bensheng's shady scene thought that after Beethoven's symphony was broadcast, Dr. Jiangben only selected some beautiful crystals from hundreds of crystals and put them in the book; After letting the water "listen" to the ugly rock music, Jiangben chose some ugly crystals. In this way, anyone can get any conclusion he wants.
Who's Jiang Bensheng?
Jiang Bensheng likes to attribute the key factors affecting water to "fluctuation" and is questioned as the decoration of product sales and services. In fact, in addition to being a doctor of medicine, Jiangben also owns a group company, whose business lines include specialized production of water purifier products and health culture industry.
Non-authentic "doctor of medicine"
Jiang Bensheng flaunted himself as a doctor of medicine in his works and speeches on water. But he never told the outside world that this doctor of medicine is actually an alternative discipline that is not recognized as "alternative medicine" such as meditation and aromatherapy; The doctorate was also bought at a diploma mill for $350.
Jiang Bensheng's so-called "Doctor of Medicine" degree is a very different major. The specialty of "alternative medicine" is not a science, nor is it recognized by the mainstream medical profession. In the west, "alternative medicine" is a complementary therapy defined outside the conventional western medicine treatment. The so-called complementary therapy mainly includes meditation, meditation, massage, aromatherapy, Chinese medicine and acupuncture. "Alternative medicine" is not valued by western medicine, and even regarded as "heterogeneous".
Never published in a professional journal.
According to scientific research practice, if Jiang Bensheng puts forward a statement about the energy of water, he should first publish his experimental report in professional journals such as Science and Nature. However, Jiangben did not do this, nor did he disclose his own experimental process, so it is difficult for the outside world to know the experimental process, and it is difficult to recover and verify it. This is a typical pseudoscientific behavior.
The economic benefits behind lies.
After popularizing the potential of water, Jiang Bensheng alarmingly threw out, "If external emotions will affect the structure of water molecules, then 75% of us are human bodies made of water, what impact will it have?" He began to put the argument that water can sense external emotions on promoting a kind of "high-energy water". On Jiang Bensheng's personal website, there are introductions and links about this kind of "indigo water". This so-called high-energy water is said to cure human diseases and is called "almost perfect" by Jiangben in his propaganda.
Jiangben described this kind of water as "from the cellular and molecular level, this kind of water is more easily absorbed by the human body", so the price is as high as $35 /8 oz. In fact, the company that produces this kind of water was exposed by the media to extract spring water from Mashan, Ba Le, Southern California, and then label the bottle. These tags are all keywords such as beautiful and positive words.
Besides being a doctor of medicine and the owner of a water sales company, Jiang Bensheng is also the founder of IHM Group, which owns five companies. One of the companies is conducting wave healing treatment and holding related seminars all over the world.
Japanese Professor: Water knows nothing!
A Japanese professor published "Water Know Nothing" to refute Jiang Bensheng's discovery. He believes that Jiang Bensheng is promoting pseudoscience and shows a sense of crisis about the infiltration of pseudoscience in the field of education. Comments such as water can be understood, and people's emotions make children blindly believe, which also makes them lose their way on the rational road.
However, some people think that Jiang Bensheng's experiment has certain scientific basis. Jasmine Zhang, director of the Youth Crisis Intervention Center of Guangzhou Youth League School, said that the rice experiment was supported by psychology and quantum physics and was credible. Quantum physics proves that particles can remember the changes around them.
Water molecule is also a kind of particle, just like a mirror, it will remember the thoughts, languages, music and images of the outside world and reflect them through its own changes. As long as there are substances with water molecules, the results of rice experiments can be obtained, such as bananas, apples and honey.
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