Re: Piffard Hyperstatic Transformer - Static Electric powered Tesla Coil (fwd)

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Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:21:24 +0000
From: Jeff Behary <jeff_behary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Piffard Hyperstatic Transformer - Static Electric powered Tesla
    Coil (fwd)

Matt,

The problem is that to educate the public will take a very long time.  The 
last few decades proved to be fruitful for this type of nonsense, and with 
the internet people are only taken advantage of quicker and on a larger 
scale.  There are dozens of books of propaganda on these sorts of devices 
too, and they are often best-sellers no less, all written by a close knitted 
group of quack friends that help to propagate claims and aid in each others 
"fortunes without consequences" many times.  There are consequences though, 
people pay the price with both their health and pocket, while these sellers 
can simply ignore emails and somehow continue on.

I can't mention how many emails I've received from people who were diagnosed 
early with cancer only to fall into one of the traps of believeing in this 
"technology".   Its heartbreaking and disgusting, and one reason my wife and 
I travel around trying to educate people about the devices.  But the 
education process takes a while, espescially rewriting history to include 
things forgotten or misplaced.  But if you think about it, the name Tesla is 
slowly becoming known.

In the past (1930s-40s) instead of the FDA educating people about the 
quackery aspects of devices, they simply tried to remove them and pretend 
they didn't exist, hoping they would go away.  This led to mass confusion 
over the decades.  People who tried various devices with success could not 
understand why they would be banned, and those that tried to heal the 
impossible wondered how they could be marketed in the first place.

The Tesla scene will continue to contain a lot of loonies as long as "Tesla" 
conferences and books promote talks about alien abductions, free energy, and 
pseudo-alternative medicine.  To a certain extent we're outnumbered 100 to 
1, but eventually the real truth will be known.

We've showed up to conferences with a lot of fringe medicine and 
demonstrated some of the authentic machines to put things into perspective.  
I can tell you that does a world of good for the audience, because it makes 
the nonsense really look like nonsense.  It also makes a lot of enemies, and 
a lot of controversy that people have avoided at all costs previously.   But 
to me, the truth is more valuable.  The work of legitimate physicians, 
radiologists, and inventors is at stake.  Its valuable history on both 
sides... and when put into perspective its also highly entertaining.  I 
believe in sharing the stories of the quacks too, the difference though is 
telling the whole story and not neglecting the important issues often 
purposely left out.

Jeff Behary, c/o
The Turn Of The Century Electrotherapy Museum
http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com

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