WTF? Grounding?

  Staff        October 6, 2013

Grounding or earthing is a concept form the alternative health movements that is based on the belief that we need to be barefoot in contact with the earth to keep our ‘electrons’ in balance. if we can;t do that, surprise, surprise, they have some products to sell to help facilitate that. Those that promote grounding point to an apparent body of research that supports it, but that research is largely published in low quality publications and has a number of significant flaws. most of the research has been done by companies with a product to sell, so there is an alleged bias in that research. The scientific community sees grounding as pseudoscience and snake oil.