Healy (bioresonance device)

The Healy is a pseudoscientific device that claims to function via bioresonance, designed by Marcus Schmieke and Nuno Nina.^[1] The device has been promoted via influencer marketing and multi-level marketing.^[2][3]

Criticism

Critics of the Healy device include David H. Gorski, who has publicly criticised the lack of scientific rigor behind the machine. He feels the proponents of Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) are doing something similar to other healers who claim to use undetectable invisible forces to heal people. Addressing the claims of the machine's makers he wrote "there is no good evidence that when a tissue is injured it takes on a 'different vibrational characteristic'" and he strongly criticises the "kind of "life energy" that acupuncturists and other TCM practitioners believe in". In his article about unscientific healing methods, he heavily criticises the idea of what he calls "a mystical magical "energy" that does no work and is undetectable to scientific instruments".^[4] Other doctors such as Stephen Barrett have noted that "Many of Healy's marketing materials carry a disclaimer to the effect that "Healy and its applications are not acknowledged by orthodox medicine due to a lack of scientific proof in accordance with scientific standards." It should be noted, however, that claims for the Healy are not merely unproven. There is no logical reason to believe that the "frequencies" proponents describe are actual physical forces."^[1]

David R. Stukus, in an interview to Rolling Stone, said that "any research conducted by the company supporting Healy's efficacy is likely the result of placebo effect."^[2]

References

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