Thanks Jones for the additional details and for your wise words. BTW even though I don't approve of the elephant electrocuting method, Edison was perfectly right: at equal voltages DC is much less dangerous than 60Hz AC:
- body resistance must be roughly the same in DC and 60Hz AC, so equal voltages produce equal currents - producing the same deleterious effects takes about 5 times more current in DC than in AC, see e.g. http://www.lovetools.ca/dl/electricalworkshop-handout.pdf : let-go threshold 51 mA in DC vs 10.5mA in 60Hz AC, fibrillation threshold 500 mA in DC vs 50 mA in 60Hz AC. The reasons AC was preferred are more technical than physiological I guess, e.g. it is much easier to switch off (voltage going to zero twice per cycle) and much easier to step down. Michel 2009/5/5 Jones Beene <[email protected]>: > -----Original Message----- > From: Michel Jullian > >> Has he [Dardik] been vindicated for the accusations in the above ruling > (conning multiple patients suffering of Multiple Sclerosis into > believing he could cure them in exchange for a few tens of thousand > dollars, basically), anyone knows? > > Michel - As I posted a few months ago when Steve started to report some good > things about Energetics - yes - it is true that Dardik may not have been the > perfect physician 20 years ago - but there is *much more* to the story than > meets the eye. > > The medical suspension apparently was the result of constant nagging and > nonstop > insistence and lawsuits from a *single dissatisfied patient* with MS, who > has > continued to slander Dardik's reputation for decades (check out the Amazon > reviews or Lewin's fine book). > > Many of the other complaints which have been mentioned were made at the > dogged insistence of this single patient, or her amubulance chasing friends > - leaving one to wonder if there was not a personal relationship in there > somewhere. > > I do not know - he DID use an unapproved treatment. Did she agree to try it? > He said /she said? > > A single persistent individual can do this kind of damage to a physician in > some states. She may have had a valid complaint. I don't know enough about > the case in question, nor his medical treatment to comment, but I have heard > that MS can be extraordinarily difficult to treat in some patients - and his > treatment was NOT sanctioned by the FDA which was the biggest problem. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_sclerosis > > I do know of other top-notch Doctors, extremely competent and the > best-of-the-best, who have been sued successfully over almost nothing more > serious than annoying "bedside manners" -- so this action should not > "necessarily" > reflect on Dardik's overall competence. More needs to be known. > > It can reflect on the shoddiness of the legal profession in some cases, and > on the shoddy standards of the Medical Profession's strong Union the AMA, as > well. > > BTW - Dardik has a bunch of new videos out on YouTube - and it would not > surprise me in the least if he becomes "The Man" in LENR - the guy who > finally > gets a commercial product to market. The Israelis need this more than > anyone, and what is it they say about "necessity being the mother of > invention" ? ... > > .... not to mention, how many decent inventors have been scumbags, in the > past? Many! > Edison comes to mind. We talked about this in the past: Edison was both > genius, and the egotistical fool who electrocuted several elephants in a > vain and silly attempt to show that Tesla's AC was too dangerous to use in a > home. Let's just say Edison was a > despicable human being, but a great inventor. > > The two contrasting traits are not uncommon in the same individual. In fact, > > creativity and neuroses of some kind - even insanity are rather closely > paired in many well known people. > > Jones > > BTW - "IDEAS,Inc" a media Studio, provided Energetics Technologies with the > animation to visualize their scientific process - as part of a media > campaign launched with a profile on the "60 Minutes". It is about time that > researchers put their own PR spin on this kind of thing. > > But Dardik - if he wants to add to his own credibility would do better in > some quarters, to explain his side of the malpractice case. If he can. > > > > >
