From: Billy Brown (bbrown@conemsco.com)
Date: Sat May 08 1999 - 10:19:01 MDT
Michael M. Butler wrote:
> Umm, though I make no claims for any site's content; my understanding of
> the original G. P. Flanagan Neurophone is that it induces some amount of
> current into the brain, and that somehow the brain can learn to decode it
> as sound. Since that development (in his early teens, I seem to recall),
it
> would appear that Flanagan is/was a prodigy who got weird (into pyramid
> power etc.).
Well, that seems a little more believable that this miracle-cure stuff. Of
course, if it really worked we would expect it to have attracted a lot more
attention (and scientific analysis) by now. Presumably either there are
serious side effects that make its use unsafe, or it doesn't actually work.
> -The neurophone was patented quite a while ago. Improvements to that
patent
> have been claimed, but I've never seen evidence they're for real.
That part I believed. The patent office tries to screen out inventions that
don't actually work, but they've never been all that successful at it. A
lot of weird pseudoscience manages to get patented, either because the
examiner believes in it or because it looks good enough on paper to fool
him.
> -I believe you can easily verify that a military DIA does in fact exist,
or
> it has existed.
OOPS! Mea cupla! Many, many apologies. Yes, the DIA does exist (that's
what I get for writing replies in such a hurry). They don't do much in any
of the areas I follow, so its easy to overlook them.
Billy Brown, MCSE+I
bbrown@conemsco.com
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