Good vibrations

[Asolepius]

Apparently we are all suffering from the wrong resonances - but sound therapy is coming to the rescue. Is there anything which can't be turned into a therapy? No prize for the funniest suggestion.....

 

[Mojo]

Coincidentally, I found a quotation from one of the guys you'll be having a chat with. From the Times 24.7.1992 (or the Sunday Times if that was a Sunday):

Michael Endicott [sic], of the Institute for Complementary Medicine, warns: "In the wrong hands, music therapy can be very dangerous. It can cause all sorts of mood changes."

If this sort of thing can be "very dangerous," what about other types of CAM (that may actually contain something) that they want to be exempt from regulation?

 

[Asolepius]

Coincidentally, I found a quotation from one of the guys you'll be having a chat with. From the Times 24.7.1992 (or the Sunday Times if that was a Sunday): If this sort of thing can be "very dangerous," what about other types of CAM (that may actually contain something) that they want to be exempt from regulation?

....and it has just been announced that Endacott has oesophageal cancer. I wouldn't wish it on him, as the prognosis is particularly poor. He says he will "counteract this problem by using his own thought processes and visualisation alongside the latest thinking on how natural nutrition can control cancers".

 

[Rolfe]

Sounds like (pun unavoidable) that episode of A Very Peculiar Practice, near the end of the second series, where the student who'd cracked the way to crack things up with acoustics presented his final year project as a live performance. The band was called Earthworks as I recall, and the piece they performed, Bad Vibrations. It knocked out half the room, and the student got a fat postgrad position from a defence company....

Rolfe.

 

[Badly Shaved Monkey]

....and it has just been announced that Endacott has oesophageal cancer. I wouldn't wish it on him, as the prognosis is particularly poor. He says he will "counteract this problem by using his own thought processes and visualisation alongside the latest thinking on how natural nutrition can control cancers".

Wow! Gruesome, but fascinating. Given the inevitable outcome I ownder what the reaction of his acolytes will be.

I've not come across him before. What is his particular flavour of woo?

 

[Dr Adequate]

The chair you are sitting on, or ground you are standing on is not solid.

Let me guess... it's liquid? No? Gas? No? Plasma? A Bose-Einstein condensate? A fermionic condensate?

No? Then I've discovered a new form of matter. Tell the people in Stockholm.