Chiropractic Quackery:
The Toftness Radiation Detector
There is a reason it looks like PVC piping and couplings...
it is pvc piping and couplings!
Add six inexpensive plastic lenses and scan the patient's spine while rubbing
the back of the device. The healers fingers will stick or squeak when it
is passed over the area of neurological disturbance (nerve stress) which
the inventor claims will emit a greater amount of radiation - which will
cause the "squeak" . This was patented in 1971, No. 3,626,930, and
was outlawed by the FDA as completely worthless in 1984. Photo
by B. Gaukel and J.J. Gaukel.
See Abrams-like
Devices are Toftness Like Devices and Rubbing Plates;
Toftness
Radiation Detector by George J. Magner, III; and
Chirobase: A Skeptical Guide to Chiropractic
History, Theories, and Current Practices by Stephen Barrett, M.D., William
T. Jarvis, Ph.D., and Charles E. DuVall Jr., D.C. which includes
The Nervo-Scope
(neuroclometers).
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