GranTorino wrote: “A magnet stuck to my dads arm after he got talked into the shot. Explanation?”
Here’s your explanation:
Magnets and metals stick to human skin. And yet, there are copious examples, including a significant number of recent viral videos, where people are sticking metallic, magnetic, or other objects to their skin, directly, while simultaneously claiming that it’s the coronavirus vaccine that made this “magnetism” possible.
There actually is a kernel of truth in here: many people can, legitimately, “stick” metallic, magnetic, or other objects — including glass, porcelain, plastics, wood, brass, and aluminum — to their skin. Although people who can do so are sometimes colloquially referred to as “human magnets,” with many making claims that they are, in fact, magnetic, the phenomenon at play here is much more mundane than magnetism.
Instead, the reason objects can stick to certain people is the main reason that practically any two objects might refuse to slide off of one another: the force of friction.
In every case where these “human magnets” have been tested, the same results appear each and every time. They include:
if you try to measure the magnetic field around the person, you achieve a null result; no detectable field above the background of Earth’s intrinsic magnetic field,
the same people who can stick metallic or magnetic objects to their bodies can stick non-metallic and/or non-ferromagnetic metals to their bodies just as easily,
that the “sticking” only occurs where the skin is smooth and hairless,
that the subject is often either leaning back or sticking an object to themselves at less than a 90° angle,
and — as demonstrated by the late skeptic and magician James Randi — their claimed magnetic powers suddenly disappear if you cover their skin in talc.
Much like the phenomenon of balancing an egg upright during the equinox, which can be done equally well during any day of the year, metal objects can often stick to human skin. But neither magnetism nor vaccine ingredients of any type plays a role at all.
It’s true that some people have stickier skin than others, and are quite capable of temporarily attaching massive, macroscopic metallic or magnetic objects to their bare skin. But it isn’t because they’re magnetic; the human body generates and possesses no measurable magnetic fields on its own. It isn’t because you got the coronavirus vaccine; there are no magnetic or magnetizable ingredients in any of them, and the stickiness properties of human skin are unchanged by the vaccines, even at the injection site.
The crux of these claims — that the coronavirus vaccines can transform human bodies into magnets — is demonstrably false. All COVID-19 vaccines contain no magnetic or magnetizable ingredients, they don’t cause magnetism in humans, and moreover, magnetism in humans isn’t even a real, measurable phenomenon. This is simply two unrelated phenomena, the natural stickiness of human skin and the fact that many people have recently gotten a coronavirus vaccine, that have been incorrectly conflated together. If you feel the need to prove it to anyone who claims to be magnetized themselves, simply put some talcum powder on their skin and watch their so-called magnetism spontaneously disappear.
Still don’t want a vaxx with graphene oxide nanoparticles in it. 😁
Dad has old dry skin.
Only stuck at injection site.
Wouldn’t stick a couple hours later.
Just sharing what my family witnessed.
Nice try, double dunce.
Well, they checked with 'public health officials' that remain unnamed, fictional, absent, fabricated, fanciful, imaginary, imagined, made-up, make believe, fictive, invented, pretend, just like the results of the animal testing in reality.
“Nice try, double dunce.”
That’s what you get for trying to use facts and logic on an internet forum. All that effort for nothing. :-)