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Sound Waves for Curing Ebola - and Anything Else Too

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday May 27 2018, @02:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the bye-bye-license dept.

BsAtHome writes:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/doctor-slammed-by-med-board-for-selling-5-homeopathic-sound-waves-for-ebola/

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.

If that can cure me of my old age too, I'm all game! Which button must I press?

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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday May 27 2018, @07:35PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday May 27 2018, @07:35PM (#684896) Journal

    I don't think diluting sound waves is hard. Just mix one part sound with 9 parts noise, and you've got a D1. Do it again, and you have a D2. With 16 bit sample resolution, already in D5 there's no original sound left. Since lossy compression further removes parts of the signal, I'd expect it to increase the effect. :-)

    However I'm now scared: Given that the idea of homeopathy is that those highly diluted doses cure illnesses showing those symptoms that the non-diluted substance causes, that implies that the non-diluted sounds must cause Ebola-like symptoms. That should be quite the killer sound! To be safe, I'll only play videos without sound from now on! ;-)

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