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mr blur

(7,753 posts)
Fri Jan 20, 2012, 04:06 PM Jan 2012

I need a favour - Any one know about Royal Raymond Rife?

When you have an incurable disease (MS in my case) you get exposed to all the worst quackery that charlatans have to offer - everything from magic bracelets to chakra-realignment to Jebus.

A good friend of mine (who also has MS) is fired up at the moment about the evils of Big Pharma and how they want to keep us all sick because it's profitable blah blah...

He's writing to his MP and offering this as evidence:



Now I know nothing about Royal Raymond Rife and don't know enough science to counter this but I care about my friend and don't want him to get the impression that I think he's an idiot, because he isn't.

We're all familiar with the "Drug Companies are suppressing the cure to everything" conspiracy paranoia, but have you seen this Rife stuff before? The whole film looks like a well-done, elaborate hoax

Free Ear Candle (sorry, Thermo-Auricular Device) to anyone who can lead me through this one.

Thanks.
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I need a favour - Any one know about Royal Raymond Rife? (Original Post) mr blur Jan 2012 OP
I just started with Wikipedia, and looked at... MarkCharles Jan 2012 #1
 

MarkCharles

(2,261 posts)
1. I just started with Wikipedia, and looked at...
Sat Jan 28, 2012, 12:03 PM
Jan 2012

their material and references.

If that isn't enough,


http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/News/rife.html


Rife Machine Operator Sued

Stephen Barrett, M.D.

The Attorneys General of Wisconsin and Minnesota have sued to stop an unlicensed woman, Shelvie Rettmann, of Prior Lake, Minnesota, from representing that she can cure cancer.

In December 1997, Wisconsin Attorney General James Doyle announced that a Wisconsin resident who was diagnosed with advanced colon and liver cancer used Rettmann's services after being told that she could cure the woman's cancer [1]. Although medical doctors had recommended chemotherapy, Rettmann had advised her otherwise.

At their first meeting, Rettmann allegedly photographed the woman and her daughter with a Polaroid camera and put the photos in a cup attached to a radionics machine. After telling the mother that she had colon and blood cancer and the daughter that she had breast cancer, Rettmann allegedly advised both to have treatments with a Rife Frequency Generator, a special diet, dietary supplements, a regimen of baths, and foot zoning (a type of foot massage claimed to break up accumulated deposits at the end of foot nerve endings in order to help heal the body).

Both women underwent multiple treatments. The mother paid Rettmann a total of $1,778.85, and the daughter paid $495.30. At their final meeting, Rettmann told the mother that she had been cured. Within a month, however, the mother experienced severe pain that caused her to see a physician. She was told that her cancer had progressed considerably and that the prognosis was hopeless. She died soon after that assessment. The daughter was subsequently examined by her personal physician and told that she did not have breast cancer."

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