Cure cancer and julienne fries!

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Or rather, desperate times call for grasping at straws which are extremely expensive and wont do anything to say you.

Such as, for example, the machines being pimped by the Rife Centre down in Christchuch, machines that can "zap human diseases ranging from arthritis to prostate problems" by using "audio frequencies to kill harmful micro-organisms in the body".

They look to be targeting the elderly, getting up to $9,000! At that time of life, I'm sure they'll got lots of problems that people can prey on, with, no doubt, the usual outs: sometimes the problems solve themselves (and the treatment is credited with the success), the placebo effect has the power to cure some ills, people die because they came to late/didn't pay enough, or...

There are lots of these things out there. I'm interested in this line: "He was disappointed that a bill to regulate alternative medicines and medical devices was shelved through lack of political support in Parliament this week." I might see if I can find out more about this bill. I wonder if our own Skeptics society know about this.

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