Opinion of the Quackwatch site - long

mbgupta@julian.uwo.ca
Tue, 07 Jul 1998 00:16:41 -0400

Dr. Stephen Barrett,

Amazing - your site is the pinnacle of quackery itself! Just one comment
from many on your site:

"One of Abrams's many imitators was Royal Raymond Rife (1888-1971), an
American who claimed that cancer was caused by bacteria. During the 1920s,
he claimed to have developed a powerful microscope that could detect living
microbes by the color of auras emitted by their vibratory rates. His Rife
Frequency Generator allegedly generates radio waves with precisely the same
frequency, causing the offending bacteria to shatter in the same manner as
a crystal glass breaks in response to the voice of an opera singer. THE
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY HAS POINTED OUT THAT ALTHOUGH SOUND WAVES CAN
PRODUCE VIBRATIONS THAT BREAK GLASS, RADIO WAVES DO NOT HAVE SUFFICIENT
ENERGY TO DESTROY BACTERIA." (Emphasis added.)

What utter rubbish is the American Cancer Society (ACS) chattering about
now? As usual, without even lifting a finger they have become the
authority on resonance medicine! Many rank armatures have been able to
build their own Rife devices and have observed, via dark field microscopes,
bacteria being destroyed through resonance. These are mostly the poor (pun
indented) butchered and poisoned patients who have come from the
traditional efficacy (??) and safety (??) tested medicine. Most had been
given up to die but with the Rife/Bare, Beck, Clark and other modalities
many have still managed to extend their lives or even cure themselves. Just
imagine if they had been treated prior to all the butchering and poisoning
- what the outcomes would have been. Can't imagine your love affair with
mainstream medicine - its not all that it's cracked up to be. Shouldn't
Quack watch be concerned about this disgrace of mainstream medicine and
doing their Quack watching in their own backyard? See the "The Farce of
Physics file sent to you separately on how scientific the scientists are.
Most have been bought and paid for... and then there is greed, politics and
egos leaving a precious few to carry out true honest scientific work, at
great personal expense, in this incredibly disgusting environment.

ACS with all their resources seems to be having trouble in coming to grips
with even the most basic provable, repeatable fact! Their agenda is
patently clear. They are scared of alternatives as these could put an end
to the gravy train. SO WHAT SUPER SCIENTIFIC ALTERNATIVE ARE THEY
OFFERING??? THEIR POISON, SLASH AND BURN TREATMENT IS ABOUT AS PRIMITIVE
AND NON SCIENTIFIC AS ONE CAN GET! REAL SUPERIORITY OVER ALTERNATIVES
RIGHT?? THE ALTERNATIVES, AT LEAST, TEND TO LEAVE YOU INTACT!!!

People like you can kill and or diminish the inventors but will never hold
back good inventions and discoveries. As mentioned above in the last few
years a movement of people using the Internet has started. They are using
many alternatives to cure themselves. They have discovered, medical
atrocities, suppression and hidden remedies. (see below, some patent
references). It has been abundantly plane, for some time now, that most
diseases could have and still can be simply dealt with at home at little or
no cost. Time has come to give this to the people. Once out of the
strangle hold of mainstream medicine, medicine will no longer be sacred
and as open to abuse. Just as an example I and many people associated with
me have been using home made Colloidal Silver (CS) and have almost stopped
visiting family MD's for flu's, dental and all manner of infectious
problems routinely needing antibiotics. Some people with Lime disease have
even cured themselves where conventional medicine simply has no remedy and
still does not seem to be interested in this far more promising solution
than anything presently available. In, at least, 2 years of extensive use I
have yet to meet anyone turn blue with the simple home made CS. So what's
the hold up?` Who are the Quacks??

The problem with any medicine is simply that you cannot depend on someone
else. You have to do your own homework regardless of conventional or
alternative approaches to a given disease. The only thing going for
conventional medicine is that it can deal with such things as broken bones,
some emergencies and accidents admirably and here it can excel. However,
when it comes to more complex issues it simply is no better, and frequently
much worse, than less/non invasive alternate approaches. CONVENTIONAL
MEDICINE HAS ITS PLACE IN STRAIGHT FORWARD SITUATIONS, BUT IN MY OPINION,
ITS THE BIGGEST CON JOB (QUACKERY) THIS SIDE OF THE MOON. WHERE ELSE CAN
YOU SELL A CURE FOR ANY COST AND NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RESULTS
THAT MAY EVEN CAUSE FURTHER INJURY? If I buy something, should I not get a
guarantee in return? Have we been had or what?

Medicine from time eternal has been exploitive and those who don't, won't
or can't get involved in their own sickness will always be at higher risk.
THE STRANGE THING IS THAT MOST OF US WILL IGNORE MASSIVE SIDE EFFECTS AND
DEATHS FORM CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE BUT WILL NOT TOLERATE THE SLIGHTEST
PROBLEM WITH ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES! Thanks to people like you.

Why is electronic medicine, as discussed below is not being used and
further researched? Instead it is debunked or given token lip service by
the mainstream medicine (AMA) and their ancillaries like your web sites,
self serving societies (such as ACS) and FDA.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

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EXTREMELY SMALL, SAFE AMOUNTS OF ELECTRICITY (A FEW THOUSANDTHS OF AN
AMPERE) HAVE BEEN FOUND TO BE BEYOND THE TOLERANCE LEVEL OF PATHOGENIC LIFE
FORMS; AND HAVE BEEN PROVEN TO KILL OR DEVITALIZE HIV, CANCER, HERPES,
TUBERCULOSIS, HEPATITIS, COLDS, FLU, AND OTHER VIRUSES, FUNGI, PARASITES,
AND BACTERIA IN BLOOD AND BODY FLUID RENDERING THEM INEFFECTIVE TO INFECT
OR AFFECT NORMAL HEALTHY CELLS, WHILE MAINTAINING THE BIOLOGICAL USEFULNESS
OF THE BLOOD AND OTHER BODY FLUIDS.
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DOCTORS AT ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE IN NEW YORK CITY HAVE PROVEN
THAT MINUTE ELECTRICAL CURRENTS RENDER INEFFECTIVE ANY BACTERIUM, VIRUS,
FUNGUS OR PARASITE WITHOUT HARM TO BLOOD OR BODY FLUID; THE DOCTORS REPORT
THAT THE AMOUNT OF ELECTRICITY USED IS NO MORE THAN TWO THOUSANDTHS OF AN
AMPERE; HOWEVER, THEY WILL NOT BE PREPARED TO TEST 'IN VIVO' (I.E. IN THE
BODY) TECHNIQUES FOR SEVERAL YEARS.

INDEPENDENT SCIENTISTS AND RESEARCHERS HAVE PROVEN HOWEVER, THAT 'IN VIVO'
-IN THE BODY- ELECTROMEDICAL TECHNIQUES ARE NOT ONLY SAFE FOR HUMANS, BUT
WORK QUITE THOROUGHLY ON SYSTEMIC INFECTIONS WITHOUT INVASIVE SURGICAL
IMPLANTS OR EXPENSIVE HOSPITAL CARE.
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Several recent U.S. and international patent documents report that
extremely small amounts of electricity are beyond the tolerance level of
microbial life. These electrical forces have been proven to kill or
devitalize bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites in blood and body fluids
without adverse effect to normal healthy cells and/or the biological
usefulness of the blood or body fluids.

U.S. patent 05188738 granted in 1993 and held by the Albert Einstein
Medical Centre doctors mentioned above, describes an 'in vitro' (i.e.
outside the body) apparatus for removing blood from one arm, electrifying
it and returning it pathogen free to the other arm in a process similar to
dialysis. The patent also describes a proposed 'in vivo' -in the body-
technology as a surgically implanted, battery operated device similar to a
heart pacemaker.

Dr. Steven Kaali, one of the patent holders claims their 'in vivo' -in the
body- device will take years of testing before it is ready even though no
harmful side effects or pathogenic mutation have been indicated.
Critically-ill persons who have exhausted pharmaceutical therapies
meanwhile fight for their lives without the knowledge that electromedical
therapies exist and may very well help them.

Scientists, MD's and individual researchers working independently report
that their 'in vivo' -in the body- techniques are completely safe and
highly effective. However, the United States' Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) has issued warnings that they would be prosecuted for making any
beneficial claims about the technology.
The FDA and the American Medical Association (AMA) have put a strangle-hold
on the efficacy and safety information gathered over recent years by
numerous scientists, researchers and medical practitioners even though
reportedly, AMAZING results have been achieved on humans with their 'in
vivo' -in the body- techniques. The threat of jail and license suspension
looms constantly over them as 'in vivo' human-testing has never been approved.

According to scientist Bob Beck D.Sc. who has his doctorate in science and
who is responsible for designing two simple 'in vivo' blood electrification
techniques, many HIV / Aids patients using his modalities have reached
undetectable viral counts (as proven by Polymerase Chain Reaction
-PCR-testing) at between 4-8 weeks of two hour per day therapy; still he
says, he is constantly threatened by authorities. He is perhaps the most
vocal critic of an alleged pharmaceutically-based conspiracy to cover up
and discredit the electro-medical movement. Records indicate that in the
1930's the Flexnor Report declared the use of electricity in medicine
quackery; conveniently ushering in the new antibiotic "wonder-drug" age. At
the time, 10,000 medical practitioners in America alone, believed in and
practiced electro-medicine. They were forced to stop or loose their
licenses to practice.

In the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (a Hearst newspaper) article A Shocking
Remedy written in

1993, the now principal investigator at Bastyr University Dr. Leanna
Standish said "We're at a very exciting juncture in medical history, we're
starting to look at the human organism as a bioelectric system, not just an
anatomical structure. I think it's going to be some years before we know
the full ramifications." Standish has her doctorate in Neuroscience.

Modern practitioners were convinced even in 1993 that electricity could be
a vital force in curing disease. They sensed that futuristic sounding
applications such as reversal of spinal-cord injuries and cures for cancer
and aids could be achieved by a new understanding of the body's electrical
circuitry. This is not "new age" thinking as records from the 1st Century
A.D. described the use of electric eels to relieve pain and cure illness.

As recently as 1997, an Austrian Oncology Society conference 'Quantum
Physics in Medicine, The Paradigm of the next Millennium' which was
attended by German and Austrian cancer specialists, focused on the
integration of bio-electric discoveries and conventional cancer therapies.
The conference kicked off with a full introduction to the physics of
electro-medicine and its benefits. The conference was a giant step forward
in the integration of electro-medicine into conventional medicine.

What was around the corner at the time of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
article (1993), may be here today. One bio-electric web site claims "only
time will tell if daily, long term (90-120 day) electro-medical combination
therapy has killed HIV infections completely (in effect curing the patients
completely) or if intermittent treatments will be necessary to keep the
infections at undetectable levels in brain, blood, body fluid, bone marrow
and tissues." The attitude among all electro-medical researchers is
entirely positive, they claim that approved or not, they have seen a
remarkably small rate of failure.

It is claimed by practitioners of electric-combination therapy, that even
under the worst HIV scenarios, with viral counts over 1 million copies per
ml and severe physical deterioration present, these synergistic therapies
produce a sharp, nearly immediate drop in viral load with a corresponding
rebound in immune system function.

Another proponent took the stance that should HIV remain hidden away in
places that are unreachable by electro-magnetics (in this case powerful
electro-magnetic pulsing), being HIV or Hepatitis positive, may in the long
run be more of an annoyance than a life threatening disease. They went on
to say that with periodic self treatments the viruses should remain
undetectable. Theoretically they say, viral levels would be so low with the
electric combination therapies, that the patients may very well be proven
to be non-contagious, though still technically HIV or Hepatitis positive.

It is widely reported by practitioners, that certain electromedical
therapies work quickly at greatly reducing the severity and frequency of
herpes outbreaks; with some long-term chronic sufferers experiencing
complete remission.

A common thread among all electro-medical practitioners is that the
treatments are completely safe and appear to stimulate the immune system,
thereby heightening immune response to all invaders. So do electrical
treatments kill off the diseases directly allowing the immune system to
revive, or does heightened immune system response kill off the invading
organisms?..they say it appears a mixture of both, although apparently no
one really knows for sure, as yet.

If in the end its found that electromedical therapies are proven superior
over conventional pharmaceutically based therapies for microbial
infections, we will certainly be headed for what can only be called a
'medical revolution'; one which understandably will not be well received by
the pharmaceutical industry.

Two of the only books in print on the subject of electro-medicine are; The
Cancer Cure That Worked: Fifty Years of Suppression: by Barry Lynes and Dr.
Robert Becker's The Body Electric, they are both well written and
researched. The first book by Lynes centers around the life of Raymond Rife
and his electrical frequency "cure" for cancer. The therapy was tested
thoroughly and successfully by the University of Southern California in the
1930's. The second, by Dr. Becker (he is a medical doctor in the U.S.)
about the latest discoveries and use of electricity in medicine. Some of
the uses like nerve, bone and limb regeneration, though sounding very
futuristic, have actually been accomplished.

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