The mysterious search for the amazing quantum healing

Note: Orac is away somewhere warm recharging his Tarial cells for further science and skepticism. In the meantime, he is rerunning some of his favorite posts. Because it's vacation, he thought he'd rerun a fun post. He needs it; vacation is almost over, and it's back to work on Monday. So, here's one from 2007, which means that if you haven't been reading at least that long it's new to you—unless, of course, I reran it once and forgot about it. Besides, it's the post that introduced me to the woo-tastic wonder that is "Professor" Bill Nelson.

I admit it.

I'm a gadget freak. I sometimes think I should have gone into radiology. If you're a radiologist and work with MRI, CT scans, PET scanners, and numerous other cool gadgets. Of course, you also have to sit in dark rooms in the basement of the hospital and stare at films for several years to learn the basics of reading simple radiographs in order to qualify to work with the cool toys, not to that you also have to learn how to do barium enemas and other similarly unpleasant tests. Other times, I think that I should have become a radiation oncologist. Radiation oncology is a great specialty. They think like surgeons, given that their treatment modality, like surgery, attacks the local disease. Even better, they get to play with über-cool toys too and learn a lot of radiation physics, more than pretty much any other medical specialty. Indeed, I spent two and a half years in a radiation oncology lab doing research on antiangiogenic therapy combined with radiation. On top of that, there are few radiation oncology emergencies (acute spinal cord compression by tumor, acute superior vena cava syndrome, or cerebral edema from brain metastases come to mind); radiation oncologists tend to be very well compensated (so much so that it's hard to recruit academic radiation oncologists because so many of them want to go into private practice); and the lifestyle is pretty mellow.

What's not to like?

Of course, being a radiologist or radiation oncologist involves therapies and diagnostic modalities that require a fair amount of skill and have significant limitations. In the case of radiation therapy, for example, there are all sorts of potential complications, depending upon where the radiation treatment is being delivered and how much . Radiation to the head and neck, for example, has this nasty tendency to take out the salivary glands, producing the most unpleasant complication of xerostomia, and any radiation to the abdomen has the risk of causing radiation enteritis and bowel obstruction.

But if I were into woo, I could play with cool machines like the EPFX/QXCI without consequences:

The EPFX / QXCI , Quantum Xrroid Consciousness Interface. The EPFX / QXCI measures subtle electrical factors of the body. The patient is attached by the means of a head harness, ankle straps and wrist straps to a small digital box connected externally to the computer in the serial port. This small box is known as the interface box and is connected to the same port where you would normally connect the printer. By means of an automatic computer callibration, the patient's electrical parameters are measured. This is known as the "handshake" between the computer and the patient. This provides the EPFX / QXCI with a baseline from which to begin the test. Once calibration is complete the EPFX / QXCI subjects the patient to minute electrical impulses and monitors how the patient reacts in terms of a high score. A reaction score is given to each tested item. The higher the number the more specific that item is for the patient. Once the main concerns have been established and highlighted, the practitioner can then begin a more thorough investigation of the patients current state of health. A unique feature of the EPFX / QXCI is the ability to "window in" on the main concerns of the patient.

I mean, who wouldn't like a device that has a main screen that looks like this:


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OK, OK, I realize that the interface is too busy and it has that annoying hyper-colored Windows look to it, but come on. This thing has to record a lot of information! I mean, this machine has it all! Biofeedback and even homeopathic activation! Come on, don't you want to try it out? It's a veritable woo controller provided to you as a Windows program to control this "quantum biofeedback machine." (Of course, given my bias, I know the interface would look a lot better on a Mac.) There are screens to enter acupuncture data, nutrition and homeopathy, dark field blood analysis, iridology, chakra and aura "balancing," and orgone generator. I mean, is there any woo that this device can't accommodate? Heck, it even has a screen to enter data if a patient's been treated with Hulda Clark's Zapper:

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Of course, all this is nice, but it's just the computer interface for the machine. What is it? What does this machine actually do? Oh, it's so much more than just a computer for keeping track of all the woo that a patient's undergone. It's quantum:

The EPFX/QXCI is a state of the art evoked potential bio-feedback system for stress detection and stress reduction, designed by a Complementary Health Practitioner, Professor Bill Nelson. See his article, "The EPFX and The Verbal Mind".

During testing, the EPFX/QXCI device resonates with thousands of tissues, organs, nutrients, toxins and allergens for one hundredth of a second each, and records the degree to which your body reacts. This type of rapid testing is known as the Xrroid process.

The stress of living in today's environmentally complicated world can lead to many pressures upon the body system. These stresses often result in a lowered immune system, chronic pain, low performance, depression, insomnia and emotional ups and downs. The EPFX/QXCI is an extraordinary device that can help balance the over-stressed body system. Through its approach it can tabulate your system's adrenal level, its ability to heal, the flow of energy through your system, levels of water and oxygen in your body, as well as your cellular health. It measures thousands of different parameters of your body system including spinal energy flow and toxicity. The EPFX/QXCI can help correct underlying causes of allergies, food sensitivities, weight gain, digestive and bowel problems, stress, fatigue, insomnia, depression, arthritis, skin problems, headaches and migraines. Best of all, it can not only read these imbalances, but it can help correct them because it works on 20 separate channels simultaneously, talking back and forth with your body, making corrections as it goes. All corrections are made through the skin -- nothing is internal. And it does this -- not through bio-chemistry, the way of traditional medicine - but through bio-physics! This is quantum mechanics -- once the physics of the body is balanced, the chemistry follows of its own accord. The EPFX/QXCI has an accuracy founded in 20 years of research in the field of biofeedback medicine. The EPFX/QXCI scans the body and assists in detailed assessment, helping to correct the body via homeopathic bio-resonance auto frequencies. The treatments and tests are noninvasive and relaxing! The program enhances clients' general health, increases wellness through awareness, improves performance, increases energy levels, relaxes and decreases stress.

Ah, yes, I know I'm dealing with only the finest, most potent woo when the woo-meisters start invoking quantum theory, particularly when they say it's working through 20 channels simultaneously and uses homeopathic bio-resonance.

Hey, wait a minute!

What the heck is "homeopathic bioresonance," anyway? Let's forget about the other woo words for a minute and think about it. Homepathic remedies imply two principles "like cures like" and the concept that a solution is made more potent by diluting it to the point where there isn't even a single molecule of the active substance left. The only thing I can think of is that homeopathic bioresonance is meant to imply that whatever this "bioresonance" is must have been somehow diluted to the point where something (the body's "aura" or "energy") has some sort of "memory" of this resonance, much as homeopaths claim that water somehow retains a "memory" of the molecules that have been diluted and that this is supposedly the basis for homeopathy's "effectiveness." Of course, given that this is an electronic instrument, I have to wonder: If the bioresonance is truly "homeopathic," then presumably it must be diluted so much that it is undetectable. Thus, there is no physically plausible way for this machine to detect it. So how does the machine measure it and "feed it back"? Or am I missing something?

Or is it just "quantum"? Inquiring minds want to know.

Maybe this will help me understand:

The EPFX / QXCI scans the patient's body like a virus-scan on a computer, looking for everything from viruses, deficiencies, weaknesses, allergies, abnormalities and food sensitivities. It reports on the biological reactivity and resonance in your body and indicates needs, dysfunctions and vulnerabilities. The information provided is fundamentally different from X-rays, blood tests, etc.., as it tells us about the energetic state of your body and the direction in which the body is focusing its energy.

Nope. Didn't help. Maybe this will help:

Once it's measured vitamin levels, amino acids, nutrients, food substances, minerals, enzymes, natural sugars, toxins, hormone levels, muscle tone, disease, bacteria moulds, fungi, viruses and the health and balance of internal organs, it then compares these figures against a "norm".

I didn't know it was possible to measure amino acids, nutrients, minerals, enzymes, "toxins," hormone levels, and so much more with a simple device with electrodes attached to the skin of the scalp and extremities. Such a device would be very handy if it worked. Not quite as elegant as a Star Trek tricorder, but pretty damned cool nonetheless. I wonder why hospitals aren't using it. It must be that evil big pharma suppressing it. Oh, and the laboratory companies like LabCorp that make their money running blood and urine tests.

Of course, no good woo would be complete without a treatise on why it supposedly works, and this woo is no exception. Indeed, there is a link to a 261 page book on the theoretical underpinnings of "quantum biology." Here's just a taste of what's in these 261 pages (no, I didn't read it all; my mind would have cracked from the homeopathic quantum woo if I had):

What is the difference between a living being and an inorganic object? One important difference is the entropy equilibrium into which inorganic objects fall. A glass, for example, will assume whatever temperature prevails around it. When an object is dead it obeys the laws of thermodynamics, when a living organism dies it returns to the world of thermodynamics. The laws of thermodynamics are the laws of death.

A drinking glass is governed by the second law of thermodynamics, which states that everything is becoming less and less organized or concentrated-- that everything is becoming homogenized. The glass may be very cold to begin with (e.g., 35 degrees F), but put it into a warm room and the coolness soon dissipates and becomes less concentrated, becoming distributed evenly in the surrounding environment.

The human body, on the other hand, will resist (to an extent) the prevailing temperature by remaining at 98.6 degrees F even if it is very cold or very hot around me. My body is now struggling to maintain a precise core temperature of 98.6 in the face of the cool (70 degrees) temperature of this room.

Brownian Motion prevails in the molecules of an inanimate object. This means that they are constantly vibrating in a random pattern. They are entropic (randomly moving), and fall under the purview of mechanistic analysis.

The molecules making up a living organism, however, are not subject to Brownian Motion, and are under quantum order. When a cell dies (due to radiation, toxins, or trauma) the molecules of the cell shift to Brownian Motion as they switch from quantum control to entropic deterioration.

Mechanism, thermodynamics and entropy are thus most relevant to inanimate objects, while quantum dynamics are most relevant to living systems. The quantum dynamics rest on factors of energetic, photonic, magnetic and vibrational elements-- in addition to the chemical ones. For every shift in quantum levels photons (light) must be absorbed or released. Photon control is dictated by electromagnetic fields which become critical to life.

If we compare a cell from my toe to a cell from my cheekbone, we'll find on gross analysis that they're completely different cells. Yet, if we look deeper, we'll find that the DNA of the two cells is the same. The DNA of one cell is identical with that of another cell.

Further, if we implant the toe cell into the cheekbone and wait awhile, we'll find that it is no longer a toe cell. It enters a new bio-quantic field and slowly becomes a cheekbone cell.

Wrong.

Geez, this guy really doesn't understand basic biology, does he? Cells contain the same DNA, but different sets of genes are turned on or off in different cells. The mechanisms that control this are complex and only partially understood, but there is no need to invoke quantum mechanics or "bioquantic" fields to explain them. And, by the way, when a plastic surgeon transplants a "toe cell" (whatever that is) into the cheekbone, it does not become a "cheekbone cell." Let's look at it this way: When a plastic surgeon transplants, for example, a muscle flap from one part of the body to another, it remains a muscle flap. The skin on it remains skin, and the muscle does not turn into another type of tissue. When a plastic surgeon uses muscle from a woman's abdomen to reconstruct her breast after a mastectomy, it remains a muscle flap. It does not magically turn into a breast. It just looks like a breast, which is the reason these flaps are used in the first place and a testament to the amazing skill of plastic surgeons and the even more amazing ability of the human body to integrate tissues from elsewhere in the body into a new location. Basically, most cells in the adult are what we call "terminally differentiated," which means that they cannot turn into another type of cell. The terminal differentiation of cells is one reason that embryonic stem cells hold so much promise. Not yet differentiated, they have the potential to be induced to become virtually any kind of cell in the body.

In addition, he doesn't seem to understand basic chemistry and biology, either. Where did he get the idea that there is no Brownian motion in life? What does he mean by "quantum order"? While it's true that it remains a mystery what the difference between non-living and living matter is, given that one second before a cell or organism can be alive and the next minute it's dead, even though the molecular composition hasn't changed, invoking quantum theory to claim that life is "quantum order" and death is "thermodynamics" is no little different than handwaving and saying that God did it. Indeed, if you substitute the word "magic" for "quantum theory" or "quantum order" in this book, you'll see that the two terms are more or less interchangeable in this woo. Besides, quantum theory applies to all matter; there's no reason or evidence to suspect that some sort of quantum "order" applies to life and that quantum theory doesn't apply to dead organic matter. I suppose that it's possible that quantum theory could have something to do with the difference between life and non-life, but, even if it did, thermodynamics still applies to both. Indeed energy usage by an organism can be quite well described by classical thermodynamics (and was before quantum mechanics was formalized) without any need to resort to quantum theory.

In any case, the treatise above is so chock full of woo that I've kept a copy around in case YFDoW ever lacks for a target. (The chapter entitled "Cancer Seen Through Quantum Theory" alone could provide considerable material.)

The beauty of this woo is that quantum theory is invoked to explain almost every "alternative medicine," from homeopathy to acupuncture, and it's all packed into a single volume of concentrated woo (a veritable black hole of woo, so to speak). Better, they've even been kind enough to write a computer program that not only keeps track of all the other woo you've been subjected to in your life (presumably in order to track the various woo interactions) but also "revitalizes you" somehow. Just don't ask the manufacturers exactly how, as this is what they'll tell you:

As the EPFX / QXCI has been devised using the principles of Quantum Physics, that question is easier asked than answered. Basically, during treatment, the EPFX / QXCI measures the body's resonance/reactance pattern and determines what benefit has occurred in the time period since the last measurement (less than a second earlier). If there has not been an improvement, the input resonance is altered. It maintains each beneficial setting as long as it is helping and changes it as soon as it is no longer useful.

Simple, isn't it? So obvious. (I do so love the part about how that question is "easier asked than answered.")

You know, on second thought, after seeing this particular gadget, maybe I'd be better off sticking with surgery.

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Typo - sorry. Not my blog either, but Darcy Cowan’s.

Clearly I need to get my morning coffee before commenting. Sigh

Grant - don't worry about a typo; the great news makes up for it all!

By Antaeus Feldspar (not verified) on 14 Dec 2012 #permalink

I love the smell of schadenfreude in the evening.

By Krebiozen (not verified) on 14 Dec 2012 #permalink

I think I remember when you posted this before. It is intriguing to me that the guy decided to establish "quantum = good" and "thermodynamics = bad." Black body thermodynamics gave the first clue that lead to quantum mechanics. I would figure that the woo-friendly would be a little more intrigued by thermodynamics and statistical mechanics than they are, since stat-mech --by definition-- includes all the nightmare homeopathy level improbabilities as part of the calculation.

The diet of Man today is much different than that of ancient Man. As a whole, we eat much more meat than did ancient Man, and we eat different parts of the animal.

Virtually all meat we eat is striated muscle tissue, the type of muscle in the arms or legs which does the running and heavy lifting. But there are three types of muscle: striated, smooth, and cardiac. Most people eat no smooth or cardiac muscle in their diet.

Ancient Man ate not only all three types of muscle, but organ meats and skin as well. Eating only striated muscle might make sense for an athelete like a runner or weight lifter, but for the average person this is a diet far different from that of your ancient ancestors.

In addition to eating whole animal meat, it is also important to eat mature animal meat. Virtually all meat sold in supermarkets is from young animals, only a year or two old. It costs too much money to keep the animals alive until maturity. The flesh of these young animals is packed with the hormones and enzymes of young growing animals, which is great if you’re going to feed it to children, but can be highly stressful to feed to an adult. Too many people continue the eating habits they learned as children into adulthood, where it causes many of the problems associated with middle-age.

But there is one meat which combines all three types of muscle tissue plus various organs and is made from mature animals, retired dairy cattle which have already given birth and produced life-giving milk. This meat is bologna (pronounced ba-LO-ney), and is widely available at fine delicatessens and meat markets.

Unfortunately, there is a conspiracy among the big drug companies to suppress this information. They know they would be put out of business tomorrow if everybody were eating bologna for health.

Just in posting this to the net, I’m taking a chance that they might send out a hit man to kill me. So you’d better save a copy of this file because you might never see it again!

By Mark Thorson (not verified) on 14 Dec 2012 #permalink

But you can already buy quantum medicines, they must work.
worlds first downloadable medicine - Quantum Man
http://www.quantummansite.com/catalog/
But what do you do if you are not connected to the internet?w

By Dean Reinke (not verified) on 14 Dec 2012 #permalink

Did my comment get deleted? Why?

By Kelly M Bray (not verified) on 14 Dec 2012 #permalink

@ Mark Thorson
And why should we follow the diet of ancient man? Since ancient times, we live longer and are healthier than ancient man.

Renate, I think the key to understanding Mark Thorson is this: "This meat is bologna (pronounced ba-LO-ney)".

Nicely done, Mark Thorson.

Sometimes I have some troubles understanding irony.

And too many people are using the ancient diet as something very healthy.

I read it as being serious at first myself, until I got to the bologna. *Nobody* in their right mind would consider bologna a health food.

Uh, wait ... Okay, maybe that's not a good way to evaluate health food claims. But he did spell out that this is pronounced "baloney."

And it's Ancient Man, not "ancient Man". Also, I'm disappointed to learn that the EPFX/QXCI has not yet been validated to control the growth of hair from funny places in the ear & forehead.

*Nobody* in their right mind would consider bologna a health food.

Since some think rotten meat is a health food, it would not surprise me in the slightest. I'm wondering what the UK equivalent of bologna is, if any. Our local butcher caters to a wide variety of ethnic palates, and he sells stuff I find it hard to believe anyone would eat voluntarily.

By Krebiozen (not verified) on 15 Dec 2012 #permalink

@ Mark Thorson:

Please go undercover IMMEDIATELY! It would be a terrible waste if a brave, maverick-y Truth-teller like you should suddenly mysteriously disappear from the face of the planet and your awe-inspiring revelations should revert back to their previous dispersed-electron state. (( shudder)) **
And maybe drop the 'Thorson' from your 'nym.

** clutches pearls and gasps, simultaneously

By Denice Walter (not verified) on 15 Dec 2012 #permalink

I’m wondering what the UK equivalent of bologna is, if any.

"Mimiks Luncheon Meat pieces are made from a Soft Neutrally Buoyant material that Sinks Slowly in water.

"When Hair Rigged or Side Hooked the Mimiks Luncheon Meat pieces behave very similarly to Real Luncheon Meat pieces and Waft around on the Lake / River bed and don't need to be pinned / weighted down by additional Split shot or putty.

"We have given the Luncheon Meat a hint of flavour, if you wish to increase the flavour just leave to soak in a Dip / Flavour, the Flavour will penetrate the Mimiks Luncheon Meat pieces and release when fished."

@THS, have you tried homeopathy? I tried to find a cure for you, but the best I could was Graphites for "sensation of hairs on face". Maybe you could do better.

I have to admit, my quanta have been acting listless for some time.

By Mephistopheles… (not verified) on 15 Dec 2012 #permalink

The diet of Man today
I have only been there once -- there and back on the ferry from Liverpool -- and the diet seemed to feature potatoes and stew.

By herr doktor bimler (not verified) on 15 Dec 2012 #permalink

The diet of Man is far tastier than the Diet of Worms.

By Mephistopheles… (not verified) on 15 Dec 2012 #permalink

I thought the Diet of Worms was Man?

Narad,

Mimiks Luncheon Meat pieces

Are you telling me that paleolithic man lived on Spam? More likely spam, antelope, mammoth, wilderbeest, berries, spam, roots and spam.

(Note: actual UK bologna equivalent.)

Good grief. I don't think I have ever seen anything like in a UK supermarket that except in the pet food section. Give me Brain's Faggots instead any day.

By Krebiozen (not verified) on 15 Dec 2012 #permalink

Strange that you should say that, as I have a Welsh Australian Scottish friend who has been photographically documenting faggot preparation this very day.

Well, it was supposed to have strikeout, but I guess it works either way.

Not that anyone is following this (!), but AVN now appears to have blocked access to their website content. (Assuming it was an intentional action.)

Grant, I can assure you am just as interested in Meryl's timely downfall as I am in the range of unlikely paleolithic foodstuffs that can be purchased at Tesco's. I imagine AVN's team of webmasters are currently scurrying about in a panic. Oddly Google's sample of AVN content is an advert for a hairloss treatment.

By Krebiozen (not verified) on 15 Dec 2012 #permalink

The diet of Man today is much different than that of ancient Man. As a whole, we eat much more meat than did ancient Man, and we eat different parts of the animal.

It is largely due to the consumption of haggis that the Scots enjoy their good health and long life expectancy.

By herr doktor bimler (not verified) on 16 Dec 2012 #permalink

It is largely due to the consumption of haggis that the Scots enjoy their good health and long life expectancy.

I suspect there are other explanations. I did once eat in a Scottish chip shop offering these delicacies but I couldn't bring myself to order them.

By Krebiozen (not verified) on 16 Dec 2012 #permalink

A Diet of Man may be good, but s diet of Soylent Green tastes better.

By Kelly M Bray (not verified) on 17 Dec 2012 #permalink

but just in case:

@Krebiozen

Fried mars bars are indeed the best thing since sliced bread. But you have to eat them as soon as they have been fried; as soon as it cools it's pretty much just a greasy mars bar.