Some people think this guy is a genius

Royal Raymond Rife is the subject of Barry Lynes's book "The Cancer Cure that Worked." Rife invented something called the "Beam Ray," which, he claimed, used oscillating frequencies to explode the virus that Rife said caused cancer. Not lung cancer. Not stomach cancer. Not blood or skin cancer. Just cancer. Another frequency, Rife said, would blast the virus that caused MS; another, the virus that caused TB; another the virus that caused leprosy. He may even have found a frequency for the virus that causes male pattern baldness. But, of course, the greedy bastards at the AMA couldn't have someone cure cancer, let alone baldness, so of course they drove Rife to drink and obscurity.

Here is a paper that some people cite to demonstrate Rife's brilliance (any mistakes of typing or logic are the author's):


http://www.navi.net/~rsc/rifepp.htm

A DISCUSSION ON LABORATORY RESEARCH
BY
Royal R. Rife

June 14, 1958


We have proven definitely that cancer is a virus or the filterable form and pathogenic portion of chemical constituents that produce the disease. In 8 out of 10 cases we can produce the disease or the symptoms of the disease without any bacteria. I have a large slide file containing approximately 20,000 cancer tissue slides. They do not amount to much as far as the virus of cancer is concerned. They show something, but they did not show the virus of cancer to me. Later I found the virus after designing and building five highly specialized virus microscopes.

I produced cancer tumors in rats from a virus which I isolated by filtration from an unulcerated human breast mass, transplanting the virus through a process of ionization and oxidation in a Tyrode solution rich with "K" media that Dr. A.I. Kendall developed at Northwestern University. I can take any bacteria relative to cancer and plant it in this medium. After 24 to 36 hours, the bacteria will be in the transitional state. In this state the virus is shed as the primordial cell from the bacteria. The virus will produce cancer.

It is an impossibility to stain these filterable forms. Over a period of many years I have developed an excellent technique wirth all types of stains, but I've found none that will stain the virus.

When I first started work on this research in 1921, it was my presumption that when the causitive agent of malignancy would be found, it would be found to be caused by a micro-organism. Not unlikely, a so-called non-pathogenic micro-organism which we have with us at all times. The etiology of this theoretical and applied biology can no longer be denied and I have demonstrated it time and again.

The shift in the metabolism of an individual may also alter that micro-organism into something else. That I proved definitely years later.

I developed the first microscope for the work of studying these tissues. With my best methods and techniques of staining I found nothing. Then by using the "K" media made of a tyrode solution, which is a basic 9 elements of salt and pig-gut, desiccated and dehydrated; this media has a faculty of transforming micro-organisms into what we term the transitional state. In that particular state after 36 hours, we found granular particles that are a virus from this organism, free swimming in the state. We also found them in the ends of the rod forms, so that they will refract to a proper color of index of light refraction. We know that we can transplant this culture and we can produce the symptoms of cancer. But we do not see the virus....

they do.

;)

will trust anything that sounds scientific. And some people will feel compelled to agree with anything that contradicts orthodoxy (or that would be really cool if it were true).

of natural selection. Despite being brilliant at theoretical biology, he was also a crackpot who believed in spiritualism and opposed vaccination. A lot of his attitudes toward medicine in particular are virtually identical to those of our contemporaries who believe fervently in "alternative medicine," mainly because it is not "mainstream medicine."

He believed in surgery removing a portion of the sinuses as a cure for female emotional distress. He believed in long-term cycles which could cause illness on the anniversaries of significant events that were years in the past. He was a great proponent of the "application of cocaine to the nasal passages" as a cure for all sorts of things. And possibly worst of all, he vigorously disbelieved many reports of what were probably real childhood molestation.

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it looks too cool to end up on a shelf somewhere

Or paperweight.

and whip the sucker out in a consultation (just for the hell of it) :evilgrin:

Look at all those cool knobs!

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something tells me he's not the kind of guy you'd want to hang out with