2025 RationalWiki 'Oregon Plan' Fundraiser

There is no RationalWiki without you. We are a small non-profit with no staff—we are hundreds of volunteers who document pseudoscience and crankery around the world every day. We will never allow ads because we must remain independent. We cannot rely on big donors with corresponding big agendas. We are not the largest website around, but we believe we play an important role in defending truth and objectivity.

Fighting pseudoscience isn't free.
We are 100% user-supported! Help and donate $5, $10, $20 or whatever you can today with PayPal Logo.png!
Donations so far: $2973.89Goal: $10000

William H. Philpott

From RationalWiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Getting high on those magnets
Against allopathy
Alternative medicine
Icon alt med alt.svg
Clinically unproven
Woo-meisters
—William H. Philpott, right after claiming magnets can cure a wide range of ailments[note 1][1]
You can misuse them, and make yourself worse, it would be addicting!
—William H. Philpott[1]

William H. Philpott (1919–2009) was a proponent of magnetic field therapy, orthomolecular medicine, mental illness denialist. He won the 2000 American Academy of Environmental Medicine Jonathan Forman award[2], and the 1997 Linus Pauling award from the Orthomolecular Health Society[note 2], which he was a founding member of.[3]

He wrote four books, all of them co-authored with Dwight K. Kalita except The Biomagnetic Handbook, which was co-authored with Sharon Taplin.

  • Brain Allergies: The Psychonutrient and Magnetic Connections (1990), claims that "exposure to certain foods and other substances triggers mental disorders in people so predisposed, and that such disorders can be cured by eliminating exposure to these substances". Foreword is by Linus Pauling.
  • The Biomagnetic Handbook (1990), only 5 star reviews on Amazon, so it's got to be true, right?
  • Victory Over Diabetes (1991), purports to "not yet realized errors of chemistry and lifestyle that are responsible for perversions of glucose metabolism, ranging from hypoglycemia to hyperglycemia"
  • Magnet Therapy (2000), MAGNETS!

Notes[edit]

  1. Specifically: stress, infections, multiple sclerosis, carpel tunnel, cataracts, glaucoma, retinal disorders, macular degeneration
  2. Not to be confused with several other similarly named awards which are given to real scientists who did real scientific work

References[edit]