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JohnOAS
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Posted - 01/03/2008 :  18:46:12  Show Profile  Visit JohnOAS's Homepage Send JohnOAS a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I'm sure many SFN folk would've heard of Rife machines, and treat them with the disdain which they deserve. However, that doesn't mean real scientists can't attempt to get it right:

From this weeks Physics News Update (American Institute of Physics):

Number 852 #2, January 3, 2008 by Phil Schewe

A new study is trying to establish the intrinsic vibration modes of capsids---the protein shells of virus particles that package its genetic material---with a view toward rupturing them and thereby killing the pathogenic virus.


Of course, it's early days yet, but pretty cool stuff nonetheless.

For those that haven't heard of Rife machines and related therapies:

Wikipedia's entry on Royal Rife

Quackwatch article

This site used to sell a CD which would play the right sounds to cure your cancer. No need to read all of it, but scroll down to the text in red at the bottom of the page. It'd be hilarious if it didn't result in people dying unnecessarily.


[Edited to fix Wiki link - Dave W.]


John's just this guy, you know.

Edited by - JohnOAS on 01/03/2008 18:47:27

filthy
SFN Die Hard

USA
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Posted - 01/04/2008 :  06:22:38   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Hmm, yes. Have you checked out this part of my signature?



Nothing new under the sun, eh, but perhaps this time it'll work?

Edit: the Wiki link doesn't work. All that comes up is a blank page.




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Edited by - filthy on 01/04/2008 06:24:23
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bngbuck
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Posted - 01/04/2008 :  09:39:04   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send bngbuck a Private Message  Reply with Quote
The whole damn thing is Rife with error! It's a Royal rape of rationality!
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filthy
SFN Die Hard

USA
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Posted - 01/04/2008 :  13:10:21   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Thanks for the fix, Dave! I am now enlightened.
Modern revival of Rife's work
Rife's work was revived in the 1980s. An interest in Rife himself was revived by author Barry Lynes, who wrote a book about Rife entitled The Cancer Cure That Worked! This led to such groups as the Bioelectromagnetics Society.

In the late 1980s, Life Energy Resources mass-produced the REM SuperPro Generator. Three of the company's top distributors, Pat Ballistrea, Michael Ricotta, and Brian Strandberg, claimed it was based on Rife's devices and cured many diseases, including cancer and AIDS. They served prison time for selling unapproved medical devices and drugs as a result of their trials in 1993, 1994, and 1995. According to the Buffalo News, Judge Arcara told Ricotta: "Your sales strategy targeted the most vulnerable people, including those suffering from terminal disease ... It is especially cruel because, in many instances, it proved false hope to people who had no hope."[21]

In Australia, the use of Rife's machine has been blamed for causing the deaths of cancer patients who could have been cured with conventional therapy.[4]

The Attorneys General of Wisconsin and Minnesota sued Shelvie Rettmann, a proponent of Rife's "frequency generator" for deceptive trade practices and consumer fraud. The Court found that Rettmann had violated the law and that, as a result of her actions, a cancer patient had ceased chemotherapy and died four months later.[22]
Another vicious to the point of murder scam. Nothing new under the sun....




"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)

"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres


"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude

Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,

and Crypto-Communist!

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