"Healing By Radionics"

The practitioners' definition: "Radionics is a technique of healing using extrasensory perception and an instrument. It is not directed at the physical body so much as at the subtle energy fields. The patient can be with the practitioner or many miles away - distance is irrelevant. [It] is a method of sending precisely defined healing energy to people, animals or plants, no matter where they are in the world. The name reflects the view of early practitioners that they were ‘broadcasting’ healing, but we now believe that radionic treatment occurs at a level of reality where there is no distance between us."

http://www.radionic.co.uk/

The Wiki Definition: "Radionics is the use of blood, hair, a signature, or other substances unique to the person as a focus in order to supposedly heal a patient from afar. The concept behind radionics originated in the early 1900s with Albert Abrams (1864-1924), who became a millionaire by leasing radionic machines which he designed himself. However, Abrams was never able to demonstrate that his devices were effective; no radionic device has been found effective in the diagnosis or treatment of any disease. Radionics is not based on any scientific evidence, and contradicts the principles of physics and biology. As a result, radionics is classed as a pseudoscience."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radionics

Legit technology or quackology? Having been through the horrors of conventional cancer treatment myself, I am very open to most natural means of healing and am practicing many. This seems a little too fringe for me though, for now. But since radionics doesn't involve contact with invasive metal probes of any kind, I might change my mind if my troubles recur and it's not cost prohibitive. :-)

"Life As We Know It May Be Killing Us"

http://www.thebodytoxic.com/

A ubiquitous material that permeates the lives of everyone born since the early 20th Century, may be deforming, sickening, and killing us. That material would be: plastics...the wonder substance that changed the world (and finance, according to the movie "The Graduate"). The material that touches us from the day we are born to the day we die, every day of our lives, might be our biggest health threat.

More specifically, compounds such as "Bisphenol A" (BPA). Wiki: "Bisphenol A was first reported by A.P. Dianin in 1891. It is prepared by the condensation of acetone (hence the suffix A in the name) with two equivalents of phenol. The reaction is catalyzed by an acid, such as hydrochloric acid (HCl) or a sulfonated polystyrene resin."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A

Ian Punnett, host of the "Coast To Coast AM" late night radio show, interviewed the author of the new book "The Body Toxic", detailing data on what is one of the most important but possibly most detrimental materials in our modern world. The C2C website posted in the synopsis that, "...world experts have written a consensus statement regarding the adverse affects of Bisphenol A, a compound found in baby and sports bottles. According to [Nena Baker's] research, exposure to Bisphenol A and similar chemicals may have led to an increase in breast and prostate cancers, urogenital abnormalities in male babies, a decline of semen quality in men, and early puberty in young girls." She reports that until plastics saturated our lives, previous generations did not come into contact with the types of health threats that we do today as their environment consisted of non-synthetic materials closer to their natural forms.

Additional sources of harmful polymer-type chemicals are found to be Teflon, microwavable plastic containers, plastic wrap, and the inner coating of microwave-popcorn bags. These types of toxins are released via heat that causes outgassing of the materials into the foods we cook in them, and are also scraped off during food preparation. Word is slowly getting out about the risks here, and manufacturers are beginning to look for alternatives. Will changes come soon enough to save lives? Baker suggests that one of the first adjustments we can perform to avoid these toxins, is to use as much glass and ceramic as possible, instead of plastics, when cooking and storing foods.

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2008/08/23.html

"Eureka!"

Well, it's probably not polite to talk about another SciFi TV series, on another network, here on my Fox TV show blog, but after seeing the first episode of the third season of "Eureka" last night, I've decided that I really want to live in a town like that. I need to live in a town like that! Seriously, what could be more fun than to live in a community where everyone has a purpose? A scientific purpose. Where the entire town supports a top secret vanguard technical industry where geniuses live and work -- a town where logic rules, and nutty, fringe-y, science-y things happen all...the...time! Sigh. Ayn Rand described it best in her essay "Apollo 11" in 1969, after attending the launch as a guest of NASA:

"Our room was the home of an engineer employed at the Space Center...one might have said a typical small-town family, except for one thing: a quality of cheerful openness, directness, almost innocence -- the benevolent, unselfconsciously self-confident quality of those who live in the clean, strict, reality-oriented atmosphere of science."

It doesn't get any better than that. So if you think that you would like to live in that kind of town (with a kooky twist), check out "Eureka" on the SciFi Channel on Tuesday nights if you haven't already discovered it.

http://www.scifi.com/eureka/
http://www.spacecast.com/eureka/

"Bad Vibrations"

"For two years now, the Ehrfurths have been enduring an annoying, persistent noise in their home — a low, motor-like rumble accompanied by a vibration. They can't figure out what's causing it, and it's been a challenge getting others to believe them because the problem starts and stops. "Imagine putting your pillow on the hood of a running car — you can't sleep through that,' Leona Ehrfurth said. 'You get this pressure in your ear. Sometimes I have to get out of the house, because I can't take it anymore.'"

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/GPG0101/807230687/1207/GPG01

This is similar to the X-Files episode (S6-E2) where the government was performing an ELF communications system application near a housing area in Nevada. The low-level noise was causing the inner ears of humans and animals to explode. Annoying ELF noise has been reported for decades in various areas of the United States, including Taos, NM.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_low_frequency

"Outre' Science"

Be sure to keep an eye on the updates at: http://fringetv.blogspot.com/.

Wiki: Fringe science is scientific inquiry in an established field of study, which departs significantly from mainstream or orthodox theories but which can be classified in the "fringes" of a credible mainstream academic discipline...many fringe science ideas are advanced by individuals either from outside the field of science, or by scientists outside the mainstream of their own disciplines. Another use of the term is in describing fields of knowledge which are not, for lack of evidence or confirmability, recognized as bona fide sciences.

"Ptolemy created a universe that lasted a thousand years. Copernicus created a universe that lasted four hundred years. Einstein has created a universe, and I can't tell you how long it will last." -- George Bernard Shaw

"System Of A Failure"

http://drmarysmonkey.com/

A cancerous monkey virus in a new polio vaccine ... a particle accelerator for purification ... a scientist turns up dead and burned to a crisp with a missing arm.

"...the public health authorities were so fixed on the theory that the disease must be caused by a virus, that they ignored medical reports of severe cases of the disease being cured by the use of antitoxins..."

"Polio Vaccine Contaminated"

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1554139,00.html

http://www.vaccines.plus.com/

"Hospitals Spreading Superbug If Not Careful"

Disinfectant wipes routinely used in hospitals may actually spread drug-resistant bacteria rather than kill the dangerous infections, British researchers said on Tuesday. The researchers found that many health care workers cleaned multiple surfaces near patients, such as bed rails, monitors and tables with a single wipe and risked sweeping the infections around rather than cleaning them up. "We found that the most effective way to prevent the risk of MRSA spread in hospital wards is to ensure the wipe is used only once on one surface," Williams said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSL0383329520080603?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews&rpc=22&sp=true