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| {{Short description|Japanese pseudoscientist (1943–2014)}} | |||
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| | name = Masaru Emoto<br>江本勝 | | name = Masaru Emoto<br />江本勝 | ||
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| | birth_place = Yokohama, Japan | | birth_place = ], ] | ||
| | death_date = | | death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|10|17|1943|1|24|mf=y}} | ||
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| | education = Yokohama Municipal University | | education = ] | ||
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| | spouse = Kazuko Emoto | | spouse = {{nihongo|Kazuko Emoto|江本和子}} | ||
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| {{nihongo|'''Masaru Emoto'''|江本 勝|''Emoto Masaru''| |
{{nihongo|'''Masaru Emoto'''|江本 勝|''Emoto Masaru''|July 22, 1943 – October 17, 2014}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Masaru Emoto|url=http://www.koha-verlag.de/autoren/info/autor/masaru-emoto.html|publisher=Koha Verlag|access-date=20 October 2014|language=de}}</ref> was a Japanese businessman, author and ] who claimed that human consciousness could affect the ]. His 2004 book '']'' was a ].<ref name="Garner2005" /> His ideas had evolved over the years, and his early work revolved around ] hypotheses that water could react to positive thoughts and words and that polluted water could be cleaned through ] and positive visualization.<ref>{{cite web|title=Snowflake Myths and Nonsense|url=http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/myths/myths.html|author=Kenneth G. Libbrecht |publisher=] |access-date=21 July 2012|author-link=Kenneth G. Libbrecht}}</ref><ref name= "Guardian2005"/><ref name="MasaruWonderful">{{cite web|title=Masaru Emoto's Wonderful World of Water|author=Harriet Hall |website = ] |date=November 2007 |access-date=13 January 2024 |url=http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1144934/masaru_emotos_wonderful_world_of_water|author-link=Harriet Hall }}</ref> | ||
| Starting in 1999, Emoto published several volumes of a work entitled ''Messages from Water'', containing photographs of ] and accompanying experiments such as that of the "rice in water 30 day experiment." | |||
| ==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
| Emoto was born in ] and graduated from ] after taking courses in ]. He worked in the Nagoya Office (Central Japan Office) of the ] newspaper, then founded the International Health Medical company in 1986. In 1989, he received exclusive rights to market the Magnetic Resonance Analyzer,<ref>江本勝『波動時代への除幕』（サンロード、1992年）5刷、, ''tr. "Masaru Emoto, "Unveiling the Wave Age" (Sunroad, 1992) 5th edition,"'' P.24</ref> a device patented by Ronald Weinstock (Patent 5,592,086), which was alleged to be able to detect the magnetic field around a human hair, for example, and diagnose almost any disease.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/does-quantum-resonance-spectrometry-work |title=Does Quantum Resonance Spectrometry Work? |last=Neurosceptic |date=January 31, 2015 |publisher=] |access-date=August 5, 2020 }}</ref> He renamed it the "Vibration-o-Meter," became an operator himself, and started a business dealing in ].<ref>This is from Japanese Misplaced Pages.</ref> | |||
| Born in ], ], Emoto graduated from ] with courses in ]. "In 1986, he established the I.H.M. Corporation in ] and is currently the head of the I.H.M. General Research Institute, Inc., the President of I.H.M., Inc., and the chief representative of I.H.M.'s HADO Fellowship.{{citation needed|date=February 2013}} In the mid 1990s, he began studying water in more detail.<ref>{{cite web |title= Authors: Dr. Masaru Emoto |publisher= ] |url= http://www.beyondword.com/authors/Dr._Masaru_Emoto |accessdate= 2013-07-01}}{{Verify credibility|date=April 2010}}</ref> | |||
| He was President Emeritus of the International Water For Life Foundation, a ] based in ] in the ].<ref name= "Reville2011">{{cite news |last= Reville |first= William |date= February 17, 2011 |title= The pseudoscience of creating beautiful (or ugly) water |newspaper= ] |location= Dublin |page= 14 |id= {{ProQuest|851900025}} }}</ref> In 1992, he became a Doctor of Alternative Medicine at the ] in India,<ref name= "Gordon2004">{{cite news |last= Gordon |first= Sari |date= September–October 2004 |title= He talks to water ...and the water talks back. Meet Dr. Emoto |magazine= ] |issue= 125 |page= 73 |id= {{ProQuest|217433470}} }}</ref> a fraudulent college which targeted ] to sell degrees<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/trichy/fake-university-vc-targeted-only-quacks-to-issue-degrees/articleshow/67495657.cms|title=Fake university 'VC' targeted only quacks to issue degrees - Times of India|website=The Times of India|access-date=2019-03-11}}</ref> and was later shut down.<ref name="skeptoid">{{Skeptoid | id=4433 | number= 433| title= The Water Woo of Masaru Emoto| date=September 23, 2014 | access-date= 4 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/fake-varsity-sealed-after-operating-for-12-years/article25963820.ece|title=Fake varsity sealed after operating for 12 years|last=Jaisankar|first=C.|date=2019-01-11|work=The Hindu|access-date=2019-03-11|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> | |||
| ==Ideas== | |||
| Emoto's water crystal experiments consist of exposing water in glasses to different words, pictures, or music, and then freezing and examining the ]s of the resulting crystals with microscopic photography.<ref>{{cite web |title= How to Take a Water Crystal Photograph |url= http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/ediary200609.html#0915 |website= masaru-emoto.net |accessdate= 2011-10-10 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20111018110026/http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/ediary200609.html |archivedate= 2011-10-18}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=February 2014}} Emoto claims that different water sources produce different crystalline structures when frozen. For example, Emoto claims that a water sample from a mountain stream would purportedly show a geometric design that is beautifully shaped when frozen. On the other hand, Emoto claims that polluted water sources will be distorted and will be randomly formed. | |||
| Emoto claimed that water was a "blueprint for our reality" and that emotional "energies" and "vibrations" could change its physical structure.<ref name= "Gray2003">{{cite news |last= Gray |first= Donna |date= July 26, 2003 |title= Message in the water |newspaper= ] |page= S8 |id= {{ProQuest|245079696}} }}</ref> His water crystal experiments consisted of exposing water in glasses to various words, pictures, or music, then freezing it and examining the ice crystals' ] properties with microscopic photography.<ref name= "Reville2011"/> He claimed that water exposed to positive speech and thoughts created visually "pleasing" ice crystals, and that negative intentions yielded "ugly" ice formations.<ref name= "Reville2011"/> | |||
| Emoto held that different water sources produced different ice structures. For example, he held that water from a mountain stream, when frozen, showed structures of beautifully shaped geometric designs; but that water from polluted sources created distorted, randomly formed ice structures. He held that these changes could be eliminated by exposing water to ] or certain ].<ref name= "Gray2003"/> | |||
| ==Criticism== | |||
| Commentators have criticized Emoto for insufficient ]s,{{refn|group=n|], another researcher featured in the movie ''What The Bleep Do We Know?'', 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 ] of water".<ref>{{cite journal |title= What the Bleep do we Know!?: A Personal Narrative |last= Tiller |first= William |authorlink= William A. Tiller |journal= Vision In Action |volume= 2 |issue= 3-4 |year= 2004 |url= http://www.via-visioninaction.org/via-li/journals/What_the_Bleep_Perspectives_Vol2_No3-4.pdf}}</ref>}} and for not sharing enough details of his approach with the scientific community.<ref>{{citation |title= Water, Water, Everywhere |chapter= 4: Crystal Clear - Messages from Water |first= Mae-Wan |last= Ho |authorlink= Mae-Wan Ho |publisher= ] |url= http://www.i-sis.org.uk/water4.php |postscript= .}}</ref> In addition, Emoto has been criticized for designing his experiments in ways that leave them prone to manipulation or human error influencing his findings.<ref>For example, see Radin et al., 2006, page 408.{{Full|date=February 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |first= Robert |last= Matthews |authorlink= Robert Matthews (scientist) |title= Water: The quantum elixir |magazine= ] |issue= 2546 |date= April 8, 2006 |url= http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025461.200-water-the-quantum-elixir.html |subscription= yes}}</ref> Writing about Emoto's theory in the '']'', physician ] concluded that it was "hard to see how anyone could mistake it for science".<ref name=MasaruWonderful/> | |||
| ==Reception== | |||
| Masaru was offered the ] by ], Masaru would have receive US$1,000,000 if he would have been able to reproduce the experiment under test conditions agreed to by both parties. However, Masaru has refused to participate in this challenge . | |||
| In 2008, Emoto published his findings in the '']'', a journal of the ] that has been criticized for catering to ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1064461,00.html|title=Science on the Fringe|date=2005-05-24|publisher=]|author=Michael D. Lemonick/Gainesville|access-date=2008-06-02|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180716141600/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1064461,00.html|archive-date= 2018-07-16}}</ref> He co-conducted and co-authored the work with Takashige Kizu of Emoto's own International Health Medical (IHM) General Institute, and ] and Nancy Lund of the ], which is on ] ] list of questionable organizations.<ref>{{cite web|last=Barrett|first=Stephen|title=Questionable Organizations: An Overview|url=http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/nonrecorg.html|publisher=]|access-date=14 October 2013}}</ref> | |||
| Commentators have criticized Emoto for insufficient ]s and for not sharing enough details of his experiments with the scientific community.<ref name= "Reville2011"/><ref>{{cite news |last= Koh |first= Lay Chin |date= January 28, 2009 |title= A 'hado' will never replace a home full of life |newspaper= ] |location= Kuala Lumpur, MY |page= 17 |id= {{ProQuest|272168250}} }}</ref> He has also been criticized for designing his experiments in ways that permit manipulation or human error.<ref name= "Reville2011"/><ref>{{cite journal |first= Robert |last= Matthews |author-link= Robert Matthews (scientist) |title= Water: The quantum elixir |journal= ] |issue= 2546 |date= April 8, 2006 |access-date=13 January 2024 |url= https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025461.200-water-the-quantum-elixir.html |url-access=subscription }}</ref> ] and Director of Microscopy at ] William Reville wrote, "It is very unlikely that there is any reality behind Emoto's claims."<ref name= "Reville2011"/> Reville noted the lack of scientific publication and pointed out that anyone who could demonstrate such phenomena would become immediately famous and probably wealthy.<ref name= "Reville2011"/> | |||
| ==Books== | |||
| Emoto has sold 2 million copies of his books.{{citation needed|date=February 2013}} | |||
| Writing about Emoto's ideas in the '']'', physician ] concluded that it was "hard to see how anyone could mistake it for science".<ref name="MasaruWonderful"/> In 2003, ] published an invitation on his website, offering Emoto to take the ], in which Emoto could have received US$1,000,000 if he had been able to reproduce the experiment under test conditions agreed to by both parties. Randi did not receive a response.<ref name="Mason2010">{{cite book |last= Mason |first= Phil |author-link= Phil Mason |title= Quantum Glory: The Science of Heaven Invading Earth |year= 2010 |location= Maricopa, AZ |publisher= XP Publishing |isbn= 9781936101597|page= }}</ref> | |||
| * {{cite book |title= 水からの伝言: 世界初!! 水の結晶写真集 (Mizu kara no dengon: sekaihatsu!! mizu no kesshō shashinshū) |language= JA |trans_title= Messages from Water |volume= 1 |date= 1999 |location= Tokyo |publisher= Hado |isbn= 9784939098000 |last= Emoto |first= Masaru |authormask=0}} | |||
| ** English edition: {{cite book |last= Emoto |first= Masaru |authormask= 0 |date= 2000 |title= The Message from Water: The Message from Water is Telling Us to Take a Look at Ourselves |volume= 1 |publisher= Hado |isbn= 9784939098000}} | |||
| Emoto's book '']'' was a ].<ref>{{cite news |last= Previch |first= Chad |date= January 21, 2006 |title= Want rain? It's all in the brain, expert says |newspaper= ] |agency= ] |id= {{ProQuest|463050722}} }}</ref><ref name= "Garner2005"/> Writing in ''],'' literary critic ] described it as "spectacularly eccentric", and said its success was "one of those 'head-scratchers' that makes me question the sanity of the reading public."<ref name= "Garner2005">{{cite news |last= Garner |first= Dwight |author-link= Dwight Garner (critic) |date= March 13, 2005 |title= TBR: Inside the list |newspaper= ] |page= 30 |id= {{ProQuest|217307067}} }}</ref> '']'' described Emoto's later work, ''The Shape of Love'', as "mostly incoherent and unsatisfying".<ref>{{cite news |date= February 12, 2007 |title= ''The Shape of Love: Discovering Who We Are, Where We Came From, and Where We're Going'' |type= book review |magazine= ] |volume= 254 |issue= 7 |page= 79}}</ref> | |||
| * {{cite book |title= 水からの伝言： 世界初！！水の氷結結晶写真集今日も水にありがとう (Mizu kara no dengon: sekaihatsu!! mizu no kesshō shashinshū) |language= JA |trans_title= The Messages from Water |location= Tokyo |publisher= Hado |date= 2001 |last= Emoto |first= Masaru |authormask= 0 |volume= 2 |isbn= 9784939098048}} | |||
| ** English edition: {{cite book |last= Emoto |first= Masaru |authormask= 0 |title= The Message from Water |volume= 2 |publisher= Hado |date= 2001 |isbn= 9784939098048}} | |||
| Emoto's ideas appeared in the movies '']'' and '']''<ref name= "Guardian2005">{{cite news |title= The minds boggle |newspaper= ] |date= May 15, 2005 |access-date=13 January 2024 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/may/16/g2.science}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= Olmsted |first= John |date= October 1, 2004 |title= Ramtha's school of quantum flapdoodle |url= http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/04-10-01/ |magazine= eSkeptic |issn= 1556-5696 |publisher= ] |type= movie review |access-date= 2014-08-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last= Poppy |first= Carrie |author-link= Oh No, Ross and Carrie! |work= Poppycock |publisher= ] |type= blog |date= March 11, 2014 |title= A grain of truth: Recreating Dr. Emoto's rice experiment |url= https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/a-grain-of-truth-recreating-dr-_emotos-rice-experiment |access-date= 2014-08-21}}</ref> | |||
| * {{cite book |last= Emoto |first= Masaru |authormask= 0 |title= 水が伝える愛のかたち (Mizu ga tsutaeru ai no katachi) |language= JA |location= Tokyo |publisher= ] |date= 2003 |isbn= 9784198617509}} | |||
| ** English edition: {{cite book |last= Emoto |first= Masaru |authormask= 0 |title= The Shape of Love: Discovering Who We Are, Where We Came From, and Where We are Going |location= New York |publisher= ] |date= 2007 |isbn= 9780385518376}} | |||
| ==Publications== | |||
| * {{cite book |last= Emoto |first= Masaru |authormask= 0 |title= Love Thyself: The Message from Water III |date= 2004 |location= Carlsbad, CA |publisher= ] |isbn= 9781401908997}} | |||
| * {{cite book |last= Emoto |first= Masaru |authormask= 0 |title= 水可以改變我生命 : "愛和感謝"的心情可以創造積極的能量 (Shui ke yi gai bian wo sheng ming : "Ai he gan xie" de xin qing ke yi chuan zao ji ji de neng liang) |language= ZH |publisher= Taibei Xian Xindian Shi |date= 2006 |isbn= 9789576864971}} | |||
| ===Books=== | |||
| ** English edition: {{cite book |last= Emoto |first= Masaru |authormask=0 |title= The Miracle of Water |location= New York; Hillsboro, OR |publisher= ]: ] |date= 2007 |isbn= 9781582701622}} | |||
| * {{cite book |title= 水からの伝言: 世界初!! 水の結晶写真集 (Mizu kara no dengon: sekaihatsu!! mizu no kesshō shashinshū) |trans-title=Messages from Water: The World's First !! Water Crystal Photobook |language= JA |volume= 1 |year= 1999 |location= Tokyo |publisher= Hado |isbn= 9784939098000 |last= Emoto |first= Masaru |author-mask=0}} | |||
| * {{cite book |last= Emoto |first= Masaru |authormask= 0 |title= Water Crystal Healing: Music & Images to Restore Your Well Being |date= 2006 |location= New York; Hillsboro, OR |publisher= ]: ] |isbn= 9781582701561}} | |||
| ** English edition: {{cite book |last= Emoto |first= Masaru |author-mask= 0 |year= 2000 |title= The Message from Water: The Message from Water is Telling Us to Take a Look at Ourselves |volume= 1 |publisher= Hado |isbn= 9784939098000}} | |||
| * {{cite book |title= 水からの伝言： 世界初！！水の氷結結晶写真集今日も水にありがとう (Mizu kara no dengon: sekaihatsu!! mizu no kesshō shashinshū) |language= JA |trans-title=The Messages from Water |location= Tokyo |publisher= Hado |year= 2001 |last= Emoto |first= Masaru |author-mask= 0 |volume= 2 |isbn= 9784939098048}} | |||
| ** English edition: {{cite book |last= Emoto |first= Masaru |author-mask= 0 |title= The Message from Water |volume= 2 |publisher= Hado |year= 2001 |isbn= 9784939098048}} | |||
| * {{cite book |last= Emoto |first= Masaru |author-mask= 0 |title= 水が伝える愛のかたち (Mizu ga tsutaeru ai no katachi) |trans-title=The form of love that water conveys |language= JA |location= Tokyo |publisher= ] |year= 2003 |isbn= 9784198617509}} | |||
| ** English edition: {{cite book |last= Emoto |first= Masaru |author-mask= 0 |title= The Shape of Love: Discovering Who We Are, Where We Came From, and Where We are Going |location= New York |publisher= ] |year= 2007 |isbn= 9780385518376}} | |||
| * {{cite book |last= Emoto |first= Masaru |author-mask= 0 |title= Love Thyself: The Message from Water III |year= 2004 |location= Carlsbad, CA |publisher= ] |isbn= 9781401908997}} | |||
| * {{cite book |last= Emoto |first= Masaru |author-mask= 0 |title= 水可以改變我生命 : "愛和感謝"的心情可以創造積極的能量 (Shui ke yi gai bian wo sheng ming : "Ai he gan xie" de xin qing ke yi chuan zao ji ji de neng liang) |trans-title=Water can change my life: the mood of "love and thanks" can create positive energy |language= ZH |publisher= Taibei Xian Xindian Shi |year= 2006 |isbn= 9789576864971}} | |||
| ** English edition: {{cite book |last= Emoto |first= Masaru |author-mask= 0 |title= The Miracle of Water |location= New York; Hillsboro, OR |publisher= ]: ] |year= 2007 |isbn= 9781582701622 |url-access= registration |url= https://archive.org/details/miracleofwater00emot }} | |||
| * {{cite book |last= Emoto |first= Masaru |author-mask= 0 |title= Water Crystal Healing: Music & Images to Restore Your Well Being |year= 2006 |location= New York; Hillsboro, OR |publisher= ]: ] |isbn= 9781582701561}} | |||
| * '']: Healing and Discovering Ourselves''; ], 2005. {{ISBN|9781582701288}}.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fr4zqDfsRRQC |title=The True Power of Water: Healing and Discovering Ourselves |isbn=9781582701288 |last1=Emoto|first1=Masaru |year=2005 |access-date=13 January 2024 |via=books.google.com}}</ref> | |||
| * '']''; Beyond Words Pub, 2004. {{ISBN|9781582701141}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Emoto |first=Masaru |title=The Hidden Messages in Water|publisher=Beyond Words Pub.|year=2004|isbn=9781582701141|location=Hillsboro, Oregon, United States|pages=159}}</ref> | |||
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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| ==References== | ==References== | ||
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| ==Further reading== | ==Further reading== | ||
| * {{cite news |last= Greenberg |first= Gary |date= February 6, 2006 |title= There's no evidence water can understand human speech |url= http://www.mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/16702.html |newspaper= ] |url-access=subscription }} | |||
| * {{cite web | |||
| | last =Sheridan | |||
| | first =Patricia | |||
| | title =Masaru Emoto | |||
| | publisher =Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | |||
| | date =September 26, 2005 | |||
| | url =http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05269/577778.stm | |||
| | accessdate =2007-05-19}} | |||
| * {{cite web | |||
| | last =Lafee | |||
| | first =Scott | |||
| | title =Money can buy love – an additive to bottled water | |||
| | publisher =The San Diego Union-Tribune | |||
| | date =March 22, 2006 | |||
| | url =http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060322/news_1c22singular.html | |||
| | accessdate =2007-05-19}} | |||
| * {{cite web | |||
| | last =Norrell | |||
| | first =Brenda | |||
| | title =News from the Southwest | |||
| | publisher =Indian Country Today | |||
| | date =March 16, 2004 | |||
| | url =http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1079449171 | |||
| | accessdate =2007-05-20 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070927172553/http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1079449171 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-09-27}} | |||
| * {{cite web | |||
| | last =Berlin | |||
| | first =David | |||
| | title =Let them count the ways to court your sweetie | |||
| | publisher =The San Diego Union-Tribune | |||
| | date =February 10, 2007 | |||
| | url =http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070210/news_1b10vday.html | |||
| | accessdate =2007-05-20}} | |||
| * {{cite web | |||
| | last =Pasternack | |||
| | first =Nancy | |||
| | title =Water-enlightening doctor comes to S.C. | |||
| | publisher =Santa Cruz Sentinel | |||
| | date =February 12, 2005 | |||
| | url =http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2005/February/12/local/stories/11local.htm | |||
| | accessdate =2007-05-20 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070930200936/http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2005/February/12/local/stories/11local.htm <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-09-30}} | |||
| ==External links== | ==External links== | ||
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Latest revision as of 15:11, 9 January 2025
Japanese pseudoscientist (1943–2014)| Masaru Emoto 江本勝 | |
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| Born | (1943-07-22)July 22, 1943 Yokohama, Japan |
| Died | October 17, 2014(2014-10-17) (aged 71) Japan |
| Education | Yokohama Municipal University |
| Spouse | Kazuko Emoto (江本和子) |
Masaru Emoto (江本 勝, Emoto Masaru, July 22, 1943 – October 17, 2014) was a Japanese businessman, author and pseudoscientist who claimed that human consciousness could affect the molecular structure of water. His 2004 book The Hidden Messages in Water was a New York Times best seller. His ideas had evolved over the years, and his early work revolved around pseudoscientific hypotheses that water could react to positive thoughts and words and that polluted water could be cleaned through prayer and positive visualization.
Starting in 1999, Emoto published several volumes of a work entitled Messages from Water, containing photographs of ice crystals and accompanying experiments such as that of the "rice in water 30 day experiment."
Biography
Emoto was born in Yokohama and graduated from Yokohama Municipal University after taking courses in International Relations. He worked in the Nagoya Office (Central Japan Office) of the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, then founded the International Health Medical company in 1986. In 1989, he received exclusive rights to market the Magnetic Resonance Analyzer, a device patented by Ronald Weinstock (Patent 5,592,086), which was alleged to be able to detect the magnetic field around a human hair, for example, and diagnose almost any disease. He renamed it the "Vibration-o-Meter," became an operator himself, and started a business dealing in vibrations.
He was President Emeritus of the International Water For Life Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Oklahoma City in the United States. In 1992, he became a Doctor of Alternative Medicine at the Open International University for Alternative Medicine in India, a fraudulent college which targeted quacks to sell degrees and was later shut down.
Ideas
Emoto claimed that water was a "blueprint for our reality" and that emotional "energies" and "vibrations" could change its physical structure. His water crystal experiments consisted of exposing water in glasses to various words, pictures, or music, then freezing it and examining the ice crystals' aesthetic properties with microscopic photography. He claimed that water exposed to positive speech and thoughts created visually "pleasing" ice crystals, and that negative intentions yielded "ugly" ice formations.
Emoto held that different water sources produced different ice structures. For example, he held that water from a mountain stream, when frozen, showed structures of beautifully shaped geometric designs; but that water from polluted sources created distorted, randomly formed ice structures. He held that these changes could be eliminated by exposing water to ultraviolet light or certain electromagnetic waves.
Reception
In 2008, Emoto published his findings in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, a journal of the Society for Scientific Exploration that has been criticized for catering to fringe science. He co-conducted and co-authored the work with Takashige Kizu of Emoto's own International Health Medical (IHM) General Institute, and Dean Radin and Nancy Lund of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which is on Stephen Barrett's Quackwatch list of questionable organizations.
Commentators have criticized Emoto for insufficient experimental controls and for not sharing enough details of his experiments with the scientific community. He has also been criticized for designing his experiments in ways that permit manipulation or human error. Biochemist and Director of Microscopy at University College Cork William Reville wrote, "It is very unlikely that there is any reality behind Emoto's claims." Reville noted the lack of scientific publication and pointed out that anyone who could demonstrate such phenomena would become immediately famous and probably wealthy.
Writing about Emoto's ideas in the Skeptical Inquirer, physician Harriet A. Hall concluded that it was "hard to see how anyone could mistake it for science". In 2003, James Randi published an invitation on his website, offering Emoto to take the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge, in which Emoto could have received US$1,000,000 if he had been able to reproduce the experiment under test conditions agreed to by both parties. Randi did not receive a response.
Emoto's book The Hidden Messages in Water was a New York Times best seller. Writing in The New York Times Book Review, literary critic Dwight Garner described it as "spectacularly eccentric", and said its success was "one of those 'head-scratchers' that makes me question the sanity of the reading public." Publishers Weekly described Emoto's later work, The Shape of Love, as "mostly incoherent and unsatisfying".
Emoto's ideas appeared in the movies Kamen Rider: The First and What the Bleep Do We Know!?
Publications
Books
- 水からの伝言: 世界初!! 水の結晶写真集 (Mizu kara no dengon: sekaihatsu!! mizu no kesshō shashinshū) [Messages from Water: The World's First !! Water Crystal Photobook] (in Japanese). Vol. 1. Tokyo: Hado. 1999. ISBN 9784939098000.
- English edition: The Message from Water: The Message from Water is Telling Us to Take a Look at Ourselves. Vol. 1. Hado. 2000. ISBN 9784939098000.
- 水からの伝言： 世界初！！水の氷結結晶写真集今日も水にありがとう (Mizu kara no dengon: sekaihatsu!! mizu no kesshō shashinshū) [The Messages from Water] (in Japanese). Vol. 2. Tokyo: Hado. 2001. ISBN 9784939098048.
- English edition: The Message from Water. Vol. 2. Hado. 2001. ISBN 9784939098048.
- 水が伝える愛のかたち (Mizu ga tsutaeru ai no katachi) [The form of love that water conveys] (in Japanese). Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten. 2003. ISBN 9784198617509.
- English edition: The Shape of Love: Discovering Who We Are, Where We Came From, and Where We are Going. New York: Doubleday. 2007. ISBN 9780385518376.
- Love Thyself: The Message from Water III. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House. 2004. ISBN 9781401908997.
- 水可以改變我生命 : "愛和感謝"的心情可以創造積極的能量 (Shui ke yi gai bian wo sheng ming : "Ai he gan xie" de xin qing ke yi chuan zao ji ji de neng liang) [Water can change my life: the mood of "love and thanks" can create positive energy] (in Chinese). Taibei Xian Xindian Shi. 2006. ISBN 9789576864971.
- English edition: The Miracle of Water. New York; Hillsboro, OR: Atria: Beyond Words. 2007. ISBN 9781582701622.
- Water Crystal Healing: Music & Images to Restore Your Well Being. New York; Hillsboro, OR: Atria: Beyond Words. 2006. ISBN 9781582701561.
- The True Power of Water (Book): Healing and Discovering Ourselves; Beyond Words Pub, 2005. ISBN 9781582701288.
- The Hidden Messages in Water; Beyond Words Pub, 2004. ISBN 9781582701141
See also
References
- "Masaru Emoto" (in German). Koha Verlag. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
- ^ Garner, Dwight (March 13, 2005). "TBR: Inside the list". The New York Times Book Review. p. 30. ProQuest 217307067.
- Kenneth G. Libbrecht. "Snowflake Myths and Nonsense". California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
- ^ "The minds boggle". The Guardian. May 15, 2005. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
- ^ Harriet Hall (November 2007). "Masaru Emoto's Wonderful World of Water". Skeptical Inquirer. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
- 江本勝『波動時代への除幕』（サンロード、1992年）5刷、, tr. "Masaru Emoto, "Unveiling the Wave Age" (Sunroad, 1992) 5th edition," P.24
- Neurosceptic (January 31, 2015). "Does Quantum Resonance Spectrometry Work?". Discover. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
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- Gordon, Sari (September–October 2004). "He talks to water ...and the water talks back. Meet Dr. Emoto". Utne Reader. No. 125. p. 73. ProQuest 217433470.
- "Fake university 'VC' targeted only quacks to issue degrees - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
- Dunning, Brian (September 23, 2014). "Skeptoid #433: The Water Woo of Masaru Emoto". Skeptoid. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
- Jaisankar, C. (2019-01-11). "Fake varsity sealed after operating for 12 years". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
- ^ Gray, Donna (July 26, 2003). "Message in the water". Calgary Herald. p. S8. ProQuest 245079696.
- Michael D. Lemonick/Gainesville (2005-05-24). "Science on the Fringe". Time magazine. Archived from the original on 2018-07-16. Retrieved 2008-06-02.
- Barrett, Stephen. "Questionable Organizations: An Overview". Quackwatch. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
- Koh, Lay Chin (January 28, 2009). "A 'hado' will never replace a home full of life". New Straits Times. Kuala Lumpur, MY. p. 17. ProQuest 272168250.
- Matthews, Robert (April 8, 2006). "Water: The quantum elixir". New Scientist (2546). Retrieved 13 January 2024.
- Mason, Phil (2010). Quantum Glory: The Science of Heaven Invading Earth. Maricopa, AZ: XP Publishing. p. 150. ISBN 9781936101597.
- Previch, Chad (January 21, 2006). "Want rain? It's all in the brain, expert says". The Oklahoman. Knight Ridder. ProQuest 463050722.
- "The Shape of Love: Discovering Who We Are, Where We Came From, and Where We're Going". Publishers Weekly (book review). Vol. 254, no. 7. February 12, 2007. p. 79.
- Olmsted, John (October 1, 2004). "Ramtha's school of quantum flapdoodle". eSkeptic (movie review). Skeptics Society. ISSN 1556-5696. Retrieved 2014-08-21.
- Poppy, Carrie (March 11, 2014). "A grain of truth: Recreating Dr. Emoto's rice experiment". Poppycock (blog). Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Retrieved 2014-08-21.
- Emoto, Masaru (2005). The True Power of Water: Healing and Discovering Ourselves. ISBN 9781582701288. Retrieved 13 January 2024 – via books.google.com.
- Emoto, Masaru (2004). The Hidden Messages in Water. Hillsboro, Oregon, United States: Beyond Words Pub. p. 159. ISBN 9781582701141.
Further reading
- Greenberg, Gary (February 6, 2006). "There's no evidence water can understand human speech". The Maui News.