Doctor slammed by med board for selling $5 homeopathic sound waves for Ebola
Found on Ars Technica on Saturday, 26 May 2018
The California medical board is threatening to revoke the license of Dr. William Edwin Gray III for selling homeopathic sound files over the Internet that he claims—without evidence or reason—can cure a variety of ailments, including life-threatening infections such as Ebola, SARS, swine flu, malaria, typhoid, and cholera.
Gray claims that sound waves can carry “the energetic signal in homeopathic remedies” to treat patients. He claims to be able to collect that energy by placing vials of homeopathic remedies (like water) in electrified wire coils and recording any emitted sounds. With this method, he produced 263 “eRemedies,” which are 13-second recordings (conveniently available as either .wav or .MP3 files) said to sound like hissing.
That makes you wonder how he got his license in the first place. He does not appear to know much about medicine, or technology for that matter; otherwise he would know that encoding to MP3 actually makes subtle changes to the sound. Not that it would work with WAV anyway. It also makes you wonder what type of people fall for such an obvious scam.