Talk:Salt lamp

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This page is pretty much just an advertisment for quack medicine (see links at the bottom). Should totally be deleted or turned into a stub.

Agreed. I tagged it as an advertisment.

[edit] This article is crap

it doesn't even talk about salt lamps, WTF.

[edit] Very POV

It now talks about salt lamps, but smacks of quackery, especially the apology line in the first section, "Lack of evidence does not mean evidence is lacking." Yeah, it kind of does. If there is some evidence for it, whip it out. Me, I'm planning on buying one of them because I like how they look. Maybe that's a good enough reason? --StarChaser Tyger 11:42, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Remaining problems

I started to remove the bad science from this article, but if I continue this process to its logical conclusion then there will be nothing left but the first sentence. The stuff about humidity doesn't make sense. First the lamp attracts moisture - fair enough - but then it evaporates it again, so the net humidity in the room doesn't change*. So actually this lamp does nothing but glow, like any other lamp. I'm not arguing for deletion, but does anyone object if I take an axe to the article? --Heron (talk) 19:08, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

* The absolute humidity, that is. You could argue that the relative humidity drops slightly because of the rise in temperature, but then that is unlikely to have a physiological effect. --Heron (talk) 19:12, 12 March 2008 (UTC)