Product review (1 stars): OUR CHILDREN ARE DOOMED!
This is buggin' me....  This is a WICK not a filter, yet everyone seems to call it a filter. This wick's weak ability to filter air is a natural byproduct of the way most cold water humidifiers get water into the air. If it were truly an "air filter" and used water to make airborne particles stick to it, it would probably look very different, and also be made from a foam material. The main purpose of a humidifier wick is to put water into the air by making a media with countless wet surfaces so increased evaporation can occur. Throw in a little wind through the wet media and we get an increase in local relative humidity. See, that wasn't so hard.

Folks, let's call it what it is, a wick, so our children don't grow up to be utter morons (probably too late).

Next thing you know, we'll be calling gasoline, "fuel".