Dr. Robert Becker
Like others mentioned here, Dr. Becker is an outlaw academic. His transgression, in the eyes of peers and former employers, is that he faithfully followed threads of scientific inquiry into places the timid would not explore. Becker, an orthopedic surgeon, pioneered research into the relationship between human physiology and electricity. During a 30-year period, he investigated healing of bone, organ and nerve tissue. He proved that electrical stimulation with direct current can promote healing in bone and other tissue. He went on to prove that some body parts can even be encouraged to regenerate. |
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Along the way, he began to question the effects of electromagnetic radiation on human health. His inquiry had serious ramifications for anyone regularly exposed to radio and television transmissions, as well as 60-Hertz power lines. Becker's studies alarmed certain large organizations which held a vested interest in established methods of electromagnetic transmission. He was all the more threatening to powers that be because he asked educated questions. Becker even testified at congressional hearings on the issue. The result was a sinister, behind-the-scenes campaign to blacklist Becker and destroy his research funding.
His ideas about the link between electromagnetic radiation and cancer are somewhat overshadowed by more powerful causative factors like diet and smoking but are still fascinating.
This book, co-written with Gary Selden, points the way toward the eventual ability of physicians to someday heal severed nerve fibers and regenerate organs and limbs. The idea is not so farfetched as another theory once proposed; that millions of suffering humans would see infections reduced or cured by a bread mold derivative called penicillin.