No matter what is your hobby or interest or expertise, there is someone somewhere selling

a nonsense, snake oil product to take advantage of your interest and of the average person's

scientific illiteracy.

From the world of garden ponds, we have one such example today.

Magnets intended to be placed on the tubes for your filter pump, which will somehow confer

some magical properties onto the water.

Pond magnets are today unskeptoid.

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For listening to sceptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from sceptoid dot com pond magnet foolishness.

With a net in one hand and a pH testing kit in the other, let's wade into the murky waters

of pond chemistry to test the latest fad and coi pond maintenance magnets.

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