Science experiments have shown how positive thoughts have beautiful effects on water crystals

"Love and Gratitude" "You Make Me Sick" Dr. Masaru Emoto

different words, pictures, or music, and then freezing and examining the aesthetics
of the resulting crystals with microscopic photography. ^[1]

His work has been featured and dramatized in the movie "What the Bleep do we know?!?"

Mr. Emoto's conjectures that water responds to emotions have no scientific basis.

Commentators have criticized Emoto for insufficient experimental controls,^[3] and for not sharing enough details of his approach with the scientific community. ^[4] In addition, Emoto has been criticized for designing his experiments in ways that leave them open to human error influencing his findings. ^[5]

In the day-to-day work of his group, the creativity of the photographers rather than the rigor of the experiment is an explicit policy of Emoto.^[6] Emoto freely acknowledges that he is not a scientist,^[7] and that photographers are instructed to select the most pleasing photographs.^[8]  As quoted in an interview with Jon Woodhouse published in the Maui News, Emoto stated, “I did not start out with any modern scientific background. I did not even know the limit of science to stop me from giving this research a chance.”   He has also stated, "I came to the realization that these crystals are spirits." ^[13]

His results have never been reproduced and so are unprovable.

In 2006, Emoto published a paper together with Dean Radin and others in the peer-reviewed Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing, in which they claim to have proven in a double blind test that approximately 2000 people in Tokyo could increase the aesthetic appeal of water stored in a room in California, compared to water in another room, solely through their positive intentions.^[9]

James Randi, founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation, has publicly offered Emoto one million dollars if his results can be reproduced in a double-blind study.^[10] Randi has also stated that he does not expect to ever have to pay the million dollars.

Sources:

1. How to Make a Water Crystal Photograph, September 15, 2005 entry on Emoto's website
2. "The Hidden Messages in Water", Masaru Emoto, Pages 148,149
3. Dr. William A. Tiller, another researcher featured in the movie What tнe Bleep Do ωΣ (k)πow!?, has pointed out that Emoto’s experiments fall short of proof, since Emoto's experiments 'do not control for one of the three key factors in the supercooling of water'. See Tiller, William, 2005, "What the Bleep do we Know!?: A Personal Narrative", in Vision in Action (VIA), Vol. 2, Issues 3-4, pages 16-20.
4. For example, see Ho, Mae-Wan. "Crystal Clear – Messages from Water", Part 4 of Institute of Science in Society (ISIS) miniseries "Water, Water, Everywhere".
5. For example, see Radin et al, 2006, page 408. See also Matthews, Robert, Water: The quantum elixir, New Scientist, April 8, 2006, Full text here.
6. See extract from a February 2005 interview of Emoto by The Maui News, available on Emoto's web site here
7. March 16, 2005 entry on Emoto's web diary, titled Twenty three- Vision 11 Casting Ourselves from the Principle of Yin and Yang, extracted from his 1994 book.
8. See 2005 interview of Emoto by Ray Hemachandra in New Age Retailer, here, page 4.
9. Radin D, Hayssen G, Emoto M, Kizu T. Explore (NY). 2006 Sep-Oct;2(5):408-11. PMID 16979104.
10. Talking to Water, Commentary, by James Randi, May 23, 2003.
11. Barcelona seminar, September 14, 2006 entry on Emoto’s website
12. Criticisms of Emoto's work, by chemist Stephen Lower
13. James Randi's 1 million dollar challenge
14. Physicist Bob Park writes about water scams
15. Gary Greenberg, a biomedical researcher and artist with patents for microscopes, challenges Emoto to explain why his work has not been peer reviewed
16. Science Fiction
17. http://www.is-masaru-emoto-for-real.com/

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