# MAGNETIC THERAPY.......Does it work? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 29, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnetic-therapy-does-it-work/215972 "2003-11-29T22:19:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnetic-therapy-does-it-work/215972/161 "2015-06-09T03:18:47Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > This can’t work… Stop spreading your goddamn lies! If it can’t work, then what am I supposed to do with all these south poles? I know they’re just souths because they’re stamped S. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnetic-therapy-does-it-work/215972/162 "2015-06-09T03:39:48Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > If it can’t work, then what am I supposed to do with all these south poles? I know they’re just souths because they’re stamped S. Well, now they’ll only work in the northern hemisphere, since opposites attract. That limits your options, unless someone in Australia wants to just repel shit all day. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnetic-therapy-does-it-work/215972/163 "2015-06-09T03:52:52Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Well, now they’ll only work in the northern hemisphere, since opposites attract. That limits your options, unless someone in Australia wants to just repel shit all day. Have you seen what our current government is flinging around? **dropzone** could make a fortune! ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnetic-therapy-does-it-work/215972/164 "2015-06-09T04:01:42Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > Have you seen what our current government is flinging around? > > **dropzone** could make a fortune! That’s not a good idea. You don’t want to unbalance the magnetic attraction of the two hemispheres. It’s all fun and games, until Australia is repelled into the the stratosphere and comes crashing down on Greenland. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnetic-therapy-does-it-work/215972/165 "2015-06-09T04:15:25Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > That’s not a good idea. You don’t want to unbalance the magnetic attraction of the two hemispheres. It’s all fun and games, until Australia is repelled into the the stratosphere and comes crashing down on Greenland. More likely you’d end up with a thin layer of political BS in the upper atmosphere that would cause a new ice-age. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnetic-therapy-does-it-work/215972/166 "2015-06-09T04:20:49Z")
Please, no! We have enough of that over here. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnetic-therapy-does-it-work/215972/167 "2015-06-09T11:30:39Z")
So is all this mockery of Peter’s position (little of which addresses in any rational way the theoretical properties of monopole magnets or the potential effects of magnetism on mental health) building sympathy for him and destroying the reputations of the mockers? Wasn’t this supposed to be inevitable, per his thesis in post 138? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnetic-therapy-does-it-work/215972/168 "2015-06-09T11:59:15Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > So, you want to destroy Hitler’s reputation by claiming that he has sex with sheep. You think it is ethical do do this. > > But what if it goes wrong? Suppose that he calls you on the lie, and exposes you as a fraud. Nah, if you can get your opponent to publicly deny that he screws sheep, you’ve already won the round. See the Lyndon Johnson political manual. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnetic-therapy-does-it-work/215972/169 "2015-06-09T21:38:53Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > So did you hear? Adolf Hitler, Anton Drexler and Dietrich Eckhart get together on weekends to fuck sheep! > [@dropzone](#): > > I thought they got together on weekends to fuck each other. Of course, Ernst Röhm was secretly Jewish. I heard when they arrested him on the Night of the Long Knives, they found him blowing the shofar! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnetic-therapy-does-it-work/215972.md?page=8)