Pseudoscience Fridays: Video Edition, The Cure For Everything

So, we’ve been on a bit of a video kick this week. Our column of craptacular science will be no exception. That said, we give you Dr Robert Beck. (Of course, that “Dr.” doesn’t refer to an MD or PhD, but a D.Sc.). Dr. Beck can be seen here in what looks like a high school gymnasium with a podium that says “The Granada Forum.” He has come to outline how…

…there has been a perfectly workable, 95% accurate, cure for HIV, and cancer, and herpies, and hepatitis, and epstein bar, and about a dozen other incurable diseases which was invented on March 11th, 1990 in the Albert Einstien college of medicine in New York City…

What evidence have we for this miracle cure? Why, it’s a pile of unpublished “IRB studies.” At this medgadgeteer’s last place of employment, the Institutional (Internal?) Review Board didn’t actually perform any research, but only decided whether your protocol was safe for the patients involved. Either way, he can’t show them to anyone who’s not a health professional, so he has an audience member come up and glance over his shoulder while he cites away.
Oh, yeah…back to the miracle cure. Of course, it’s been suppressed. But who would suppress such a cure? (Fast forward to about 2:30 in the video to follow along)…

I’ve found that the mafia, the mafia, the mob owns about 51% of major pharmaceutical houses.

And that, folks is why we here are Medgadget don’t like to cover pharma news, since we don’t like mixing with those mafia types. (Bob…er, Dr Beck doesn’t mention a source for that info, btw).
But wait, what does this therapy actually entail? You’ll have to wait until the last 45 seconds to find out (in some rather vague terms). By now, we’ve come to recognize that the actual treatment is the least of concern to good pseudoscience. What’s really important is that it’s a fraction of the cost, portends to cure something uncurable (or even a non-existant condition) or, in this case, has been suppressed by the mafia-owned pharma business.
Anyways, they place electrodes on the skin above major arteries to “electify” blood in order to prevent viruses from reproducing. Yes, we know viruses don’t really reproduce (at least in the mitotic sense), so we’ll let the caption that accompanies the video round things out after the jump…(along with parts 2 and 3 of this lecture).

By nature and profession Robert C. Beck was always an innovator and inventor. He set about to develop a system to send the necessary microcurrents of electricity into the blood without medical intrusion or, in other words, without invading the body. After developing a system using electrodes on the skin, carefully placed over two arteries, he funded a study with two medical doctors and 8 AIDS patients. Beck had hoped to publish the results of this study. According to Bob Beck, all 8 patients were symptom–free. The established medical system, however, required that a PCR test show that each individual was no longer HIV positive. This led to confusion and the eventual abandonment of the study as the PCR test results were all over the place. It has since come to light that the PCR test is not a valid test for HIV. It has further come to light that HIV is not necessarily a causative factor in AIDS.

Right…with apologies to Jeff Foxworthy, “You might be a pseudoscientist if…”.
Following the link in the caption leads to another great pseudoscience site, where you can actually find the circuit diagram for the electrical device he talks about. Maybe we’ll go ahead and build one and let you know how it works….
Here are the next 2 videos in a 3 part series…