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Too good to be true
You instinctively know what something is too good to be true, don’t you? And things which seem that way almost always turn out to be just that, too good too be true. I am constantly coming across products for sale on the internet which are such obvious bullshit, and yet someone must be buying them.

MagnoFuel
Recently, while researching for my book on bio-fuels, I am coming across loads of magnetic miricles. These things simply attach around your engine’s fuel lines, attached with zip-ties, and enhance the fuel magnetically; reducing pollution, increasing performance, reducing consumption, increasing range.

Sound too good to be true? Well obviously! If these things worked they would be fitted as standard to all new cars, in fact it would probably be compulsory.

The “science” behind them
Like all con artists, the makers offer very pseudo-scientific language to explain what they do and how they work and then fail to back any of it up with any proof, beyond the dubious and anecdotal, that they have any effect whatsoever. They use an array of techniques typpical of confidence trics to confuse you into trying their product.

For example, ecozone.co.uk say here that:

• “Magno-Fuel has been tested to give fuel savings of up to 15%, provides better combustion and more power from your engine while reducing pollution.”
  Tested by who? When? Where? Or am I meant to just take your word for it?
• “Only after a short time will oxygen molecules be embedded between the fuel molecules, ensuring a better combustion.”
  What does thins even mean?
• “Bloch and Purcell were awarded the Nobel prize for their work on magnetic fields on solid, liquid and gas substances.”
  Sure they were, Physics prize in 1952 “for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith”, what does thins have to do what the MagnoFuel? Nothing whatsoever, that is what!

Other magnetic bullshit
One can also buy magnetic toilet descalers, magnetic washing machine descalers, an amazing array of magnetic jewelery and loads of other miracle magnetic gizmos available to the gullible, from water treatment and fuel treatment to health (for you or your dog or cat or horse); there is tones of it and all of it complete bullshit!

And even more nonsense
EcoFlow and MagnoFlow and BioFlow, BioGuard pendants to protect you from your computer, BioPhone to protect you from your cell phone, Vitaflow for your water, Motoflow for your fuel, Thermoflow for your boiler/furnace and (my favourite) Vinaflow to protect you from your wine!

How can this be legal?
Well how can this be legal? I have no idea, I guess it isn’t. Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof, this is blatant modern day snake oil, a scam, a con……. it is complete bullshit, don’t buy it!!

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I recently pointed out to EcoZone, GetEtical, Maplin (I think they may have withdrawn them) & BigGreenSmile that they are selling this lie, and other lies too, and therefore complicit in a scam. Only one person has had the decency to reply to me, Phil Soulsby phil@getethical.com of GetEthical responded to me:

Please don’t waste our time these products are all independently tested by government departments as well as our own research people. Your details have been passed on to the authorities for further action. Denial of the truth has been common before – stop destroying the planet by burying your head in the sand.

… a response I am still trying to fully understand. I have asked him to show me the independent tests by govenment departments but he has yet to do so, as for the rest of what he says, I am at a loss to understand.