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Come Fan with UsTuesday, June 23, 2026

Where Can We Get These Placebos?

Ars Technica on those magic baseball necklaces:

↵↵Having metal near or in contact with your skin isn’t going to change the flow of any energy unless there happens to be electrified wires hooked up to that metal. It isn’t going to work through magnetism, either. Titanium and gold aren’t magnetic. And, even if they were, they’d be too weak.

↵↵Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins the movie by telling you how it ends.

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