Re: Violet ray machines

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Mddeming-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 2/12/02 5:14:38 AM Eastern Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes:

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> The Violet Ray appliance is used for a wide variety of problems to stimulate
> the nervous and circulatory systems. It is essentially an ultra-high
> voltage, low amperage source of static electricity with a voltage output of
> about 50,000 volts and a frequency of over one million cycles per second. At
> the heart of the Violet Ray is the Tesla coil, named for Nicola Tesla
> (1856-1943), the famous electrical engineer, scientist, inventor and
> dicoverer.
>
> Not understanding something only makes in quakery in your own mind and if
> this isnt science I dont know what is.
>
> Richard




Hi Richard, All,
         Not understanding something does not make it quackery. It is when is
understood by the scientific community and when hundreds of clinical trials
under controlled conditions show that a product has little no value in curing
or treating anything that it claims to, that it is discarded as quackery. It is
ignorance that makes quackery look like plausible science. These devices were
sold during a period when very little was understood about biological processes
or the effects of electricity. Most of it relied and still relies in the
placebo effect generated by the ignorance and faith of the consumer; just like
copper bracelets, magnetic crosses and pillows, Feng-Shui, "crystal power", and
all the other new age crapola.

Some points of fact.
1. 50,000v is not ultra-high voltage.
2. Static electricity is DC and therefore has no frequency.
3. Anyone who has been into Coiling over 40 years knows who Nikola Tesla was. 

If you obtain, through your researches, any independently corroborateable hard
data, I'm sure everyone on the list would like to know of it. The burden of
proof for such claims rests with those supporting the claims, and the demand
for proof must be equal to the extraordinary character of any phenomena
advocated. Therefore, corroborators must include a majority not subject to
"True Believer Syndrome". 

Matt D.
G3-1085