They're now using magnetic therapy to treat depression with a coil
placed on the head over a certain part of the brain. Then a high
current is discharged thru the coil. Skip down to the bottom of this
URL to read about TMS.
http://depression.about.com/cs/treatments/a/newtx.htm

That appears to be reasonable. Using fridge magnets to cure diseases is
like
trying to behead someone with a feather.

There is a chance of the latter succeeding.

Right; the thing is that with TMS, they first established that it definitely
has an effect on the brain; it can make people twitch, for example, when a
motor area is stimulated; so the only question now is how to get a
*beneficial* effect.


A few years back, one of my wife's frinds returned to the area for a
visit. She is a devout Christian, but had been selling magnets as
cure-alls. I asked my wife (also a firm Christian) if what she was
selling weren't rather un-Christian. She just shuttered.

A good point. As a firm Christian myself, I think we should be more
intolerant of quacks. Fraud is sin. Irresponsibility bordering on fraud is
also culpable.