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Comment author: PhilGoetz 05 December 2010 01:57:56AM *  4 points [-]

Next time you talk to a creationist, try waving a magnet over their OFC while they're thinking. I tried to find out how strong a magnet you'd need and how fast you have to wave it back and forth from this famous study; but shockingly (I don't know why I'm still shocked by these things), the study nowhere indicates how strong a magnetic field they used, gives conflicting information on the frequency of the field change, and probably gives the wrong information anyway, since I don't believe either 1Hz or 10Hz is fast enough to have an effect.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 08 December 2010 04:57:28PM 0 points [-]

Liane Young confirmed by email that 1Hz (and/or 10Hz) is the pulse frequency, not the (more relevant) magnetic field oscillation frequency.