Raymond Rife once found cure for cancer?

Question

I was reading about this guy.... Do you think he was a scam artist or a person who really found the cure to cancer? Please give a well thought out opinion prefferably backed up with facts.

Answer 1

There is no such thing as a "cure" to cancer. For years people have been searching for this holy grail and it simply does not exist.

Why? Because "cancer" is just a simple word used to define the process of uncontrolled cell mutation in a given organism. There are multitudes of different *KINDS* of cancer... squamous cell, renal cell, adenocarcinoma, lymphoma etc etc etc... You may well find a cure for one kind of cancer, but it would be completely ineffective against other types.

Thats why different treatment modalities are employed in combination, or independently for the very unique characteristics of each cancer (for some kinds of brain cancers for example, chemotherapy is not advised because it is difficult to get the chemo past the blood/brain barrier without using an amount that would cause significant side effects to the patient). We are damn close to cures for MANY of the cancers out there, but the ultimate cure, is preventing the cancer from ever occuring to begin with.

This is why colon cancer for example, is one of the few truly preventable cancers out there. A simple colonoscopy can catch polyps or abnormalities in the colon long before it ever has a chance to turn to cancer, or when it is early enough to even be removed with a simple surgery. Breast, oral, skin and prostate cancers also have high success rates when caught early.

Unfortunately for today, once many common cancers begin, only under a few circumstances can any of them actually be called "cured",

Answer 2

Rife's machines required different frequencies to supposedly kill different cancers and diseases. If you died then the reason given was that you used the wrong frequency to treat the ailment you were afflicted with. Consequently the various practitioners of Rife cures always had an "out" when their Rife machine did not cure the disease - which was very frequent (the original Rife machine was lost or destroyed many years ago). There is a whole pseudo-history to Rife and these frequencies and whether they are faked or lost - among the many other tales that add to the Rife mystique.

Do you remember when newsman Dan Rather was assaulted by a mentally unbalanced man (eventually found to be a murderer) who repeatedly demanded that Rather tell him "What is the frequency Kenneth?". Evidently this man was getting messages through his TV telling him that Dan held the secret of the lost Rife frequencies. Entertaining tale.

Rife is fascinating reading - a long series of unsubstantiated and improbable tales. The more you investigate the more you will recognize than anything Rife did or did not accomplish was lost long ago and has been replaced by charlatans hoping to profit from the stories surrounding Rife.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Rife

scroll down on page below to the notable events section on Dan Rather to read about the "what's the frequency Kenneth" episode and resulting REM song about this incident.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rather

Answer 3

Contrary to what you read there is no documented scientific evidence that Rife's machine ever cured cancer. There is plenty of copy cat machines out there on the Internet though . . and none of them have cured cancer either. Because if any of these frequency machines worked . . it would be easy to prove. Effective treatment for cancer isn't mysterious . . and take years to prove. If a cancer treatment based on a frequency machine works it should be pretty immediate. All you need to do is prove that the machine is shrinking or killing off tumors (or the bacteria is you believe Rife). If that cannot be shown to work in two months time by a number of different people . . than it probably doesn't work and never did. What good is something that you cannot prove works.

American Cancer Society: Electromagnetic Therapy
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ETO/content/ETO_5_3X_Electromagnetic_Therapy.asp?sitearea=ETO

Rife Machine Operator Sued
http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/News/rife.html

Incidentally, if you are truly interested in this type of machine . . you might be interested to know about Radiofrequency Ablation (uses high-frequency alternating electrical current to destroy tissue cells by heating them) .. which is a real machine that is capable of targeting tumors under 4cm and destroying them.
NIH: Radiofrequency Ablation
http://www.cc.nih.gov/drd/rfa/

Answer 4

It takes time. For certain kinds of cancer there is a cure, but there are many types and some are not curable. Two in my family are dying on cancer now so I hope there is a cure tomorrow. What we consider modern medicine has been around less that 100 years and many diseases have been controlled in that time span. A lot of it gets down to the money for research. Drug companies tend to go for the easiest things that bring them the most profit rather that the hard things.

Answer 5

How many people have "found cures for cancer"? There are so many "cures" I don't understand why people keep promoting them unless they disregard all the previous "cures".

Anyone who claims to have done so should be viewed with extreme skepticism.

Answer 6

Scam artist - no facts available