How to avoid medical fraud. Complete diagnosis of the body
Quack diagnostic methods are amazing in their diversity. Since my “acquaintance” with bioresonance, the number of developments by medical scammers has exceeded a dozen. Some of them successfully disguise themselves as actually working medical techniques, while others find a special approach to people with a certain character. Only one thing is constant - real harm to health if you do not seek medical help in a timely manner.
How to distinguish a real diagnosis from a fraudulent one?
Is it possible to distinguish medical fraud from real diagnostics? There are several features that define a method as pseudo-medical. They were collected and classified by military toxicologist Alexey Vodovozov, who has been “collecting” similar types of medical fraud for more than 10 years and who worked for some time on one of the bioresonance diagnostic complexes (as he wrote about in his [Livejournal](https://uncle-doc .livejournal.com/163341.html)). At the end of the article there is a video of his lecture on this topic.
First sign. The description of a technique or device uses scientific terminology that has no semantic meaning.
To explain how a diagnostic device or technique works, the so-called “technobabble”, scientific terminology, is used. The concepts on which the description is based either do not exist in nature at all, or are used inappropriately and mixed.
Any traditional type of research, in principle, can be explained using concepts from a school course in natural sciences - “If you cannot explain your theory to an 8-year-old child, then you yourself do not understand what you are talking about, and such a theory is worthless.” A. Einstein.
For example, how an X-ray machine works: accelerated electrons are sharply slowed down using a high-density barrier (for example, glass). Powerful “bremsstrahlung radiation” occurs, knocking electrons out of the special metal in the apparatus. These electrons fly at great speed and are capable of passing through our body. If a person is placed between an x-ray and a photographic film, the electrons will partially pass through him, lingering in denser tissues, which will look lighter in the picture (white bones, light mucus in the lungs, etc.).
And now description of the Oberon diagnostic system (Computer bioresonance diagnostics of the condition, screenshot from site ):
The diagnosis is based on “spectral analysis of eddy magnetic fields”, about which you will not find a single scientific publication. They brought in Ayurveda, the flow of “Chi” and even the “proven” memory of water. Full set.
The link to Oberon’s representative company constantly “flies off”, as sites regularly rebrand and move to other email addresses.
Not all quack diagnostic methods make such reckless mistakes. Diagnosticians using a drop of blood (hemoscanning) show ingenuity already in the process of deciphering the results. If the description of the technique does not include torsion fields, auras, chakras, information clusters of water memory and others, this does not mean that you are not being misled.
Second sign. Complete diagnostics in one office, by one doctor in an hour
Devices are used for which there is no data on specificity and sensitivity in scientific medical publications. You are offered a complete scan of all systems and organs in one office, without visiting several specialists, in a minimum of time and using one diagnostic method.
One of the bioresonance diagnostic devices
There are no universal diagnostic methods: MRI does not determine the level of cholesterol in the blood, x-rays will not detect leukemia and a cardiogram will not show a fracture. For each method, a database of medical publications in international journals is created. All data on real diagnostic practices can be verified, and the effectiveness can be confirmed experimentally.
The pseudodiagnostic data presented in their brochures and websites cannot be confirmed or verified in peer-reviewed sources.
Third sign. Pseudomedical diagnoses
The diagnosis is formulated in a non-standard way; diseases and pathologies unfamiliar to medicine are found. There is no normal option and no “Healthy” diagnosis.
Fungi and amoebas in capillary blood (sic!)
Non-existent diseases are also “treated” in state clinics, since this is profitable and does not imply any liability (for example, dysbacteriosis or VSD). However, if the detected pathology can somehow be confirmed by tests or another method, then scammers try to avoid this.
Most often you can hear such a misleading diagnosis:
- blood dysbiosis
- acidification
- slagging
- vegetative-vascular dystonia
- tense liver
This kind of disease is not on the list of the International Classification of Diseases ( ICD 10 ). Any diagnosis can be checked on the WHO website. Sometimes existing diagnoses are made, but the treatment will be conditionally safe dietary supplements, sugar balls, charged water and bioresonance physiotherapy.
Fourth sign. Prescribing treatment without confirming the diagnosis
Treatment is prescribed immediately, after the first check, no tests confirming the diagnosis are prescribed. Medicines include dietary supplements, information-charged lactose beads, charged or structured water, homeopathy, occasionally acupuncture and osteopathy, aura cleansing and chakra opening, irradiation with torsion fields, bioresonance therapy, magnetic therapy, etc.
Terrible diagnoses disorient the patient, which is what scammers take advantage of. Medicines and devices are sold either in the same office, or a representative of a company is already waiting for you, offering one of the treatment courses of the products he promotes - cleansing, detox, antiparasitic, rejuvenating, restorative, etc.
In evidence-based medicine, treatment is prescribed by a physician of a therapeutic or surgical specialty who has collected anamnesis and conclusions of diagnostic doctors. In the case of charlatans, treatment is prescribed by the “operator” of the diagnostic apparatus, regardless of the diagnosis and qualifications of this operator.
The main detector of medical fraud in this case is the appointment of a treatment program immediately after the diagnosis.
Fifth sign. Warnings about counterfeit diagnostic tools
Bioresonance diagnostic and therapeutic devices (torsion field generators, NLS analyzers and other devices based on the information fields hypothesis) are sources of very good income for scammers.
The circuit diagrams of the devices are extremely simple, they are easy to copy and produce, and any programmer can recreate the algorithm of a computer program. Therefore, there is an information war among manufacturers and distributors of bioresonance boxes and programs.
Popular bioresonance therapy device Zapper 3 and its filling.
How does this manifest itself: on all sites with devices of this kind there is a special page “Beware of counterfeits”, or a warning in a different wording. There is a list of sites and even the names of manufacturers-sellers offering the same thing under a different or the same name. They are accused of fakes, misdiagnosis, or “bad treatment.”
There is another way to earn extra money - an updated version of the device or program is released and former clients are invited to re-diagnosis at a discount, promising even greater accuracy and limitless possibilities of the new equipment (technology is developing, so what’s not clear about that).
Having looked through several dozen websites of sellers of bioresonance equipment, cross-references to “counterfeits” were found in almost every one. For example, Oberon accuses Sensitive Imago of fraud, and vice versa. Both companies publish photographs of the insides of counterfeit devices, almost identical in their simplicity… Yes, and medical scammers will never agree on the operating frequencies of bioresonance.
No one is involved in counterfeiting real medical diagnostic devices. Whether it is a manual cardiograph or a magnetic resonance imaging scanner, it must perform strictly defined functions. A device that only imitates the operation of the original device will be immediately sent back to the manufacturer. In the case of simulating bioresonance or a torsion field generator, we are dealing with simple microcircuits and flashing lights, sometimes with sound and simple audio headphones, the wire of which goes to the audio output.
Sixth sign. Surgical pathologies are not diagnosed
There are exceptions, which are also treated with bioadditives, magnets and biofields. Pseudodiagnosticians will not diagnose you with an inguinal hernia or urolithiasis, since these conditions can be confirmed with 100% accuracy using real medical diagnostic methods and are unlikely to be able to “prescribe” the treatment of surgical pathologies with sugar balls.
To be fair, traditional evidence-based medicine is also full of diagnostic errors, and surgeons are always happy to put the patient on the table.
Seventh sign. Statements of the kind: “Our technique is ahead of its time” or “The secret of our ancestors has been revealed”
When it comes to diagnosing diseases, our ancestors have no secrets. The oldest methods of laboratory instrumental diagnostics are no older than two hundred years old. Modern methods are not based on the experience of the Atlanteans and Hyperboreans, and it is also impossible to beat the times in medical diagnostic practice.
Pseudoscientific torsion fields are often the basis of medical and diagnostic devices of charlatans
First, a discovery of some physical phenomenon is made, which may have application in medicine. Example: discovery of glass making > manufacturing of optical lenses > optical microscope > diagnostics using microscopy techniques.
Scientific discoveries spanning millennia
Before the discovery of ultrasonic waves, the ultrasound machine could not work. You cannot treat with torsion fields that cannot be fixed.
Eighth sign. “Control” pathologies or conditions are not diagnosed
Pregnancy is not detected by any quack diagnosis unless you tell the doctor about it in advance. It will not show gout in a young woman, since this is very rare (a blood test is unambiguous). This applies to any control disease that cannot be determined even by the experienced eye of a doctor.
The ninth sign. It is extremely difficult to confirm or refute the results of the survey
It is impossible to confirm third-degree toxins, lack of Chi energy, or acidification of the blood using laboratory methods (acidification, of course, happens, but in this case the patient can no longer walk with his own legs, this is a terrible diagnosis). Parasitic infestations also cannot be detected by a blood test for a number of reasons, and in general helminthiases are very difficult to diagnose, since they have perfectly adapted to peaceful coexistence with the carrier.
A comic picture that well illustrates hemoscanning: fungi and protozoa are not able to penetrate the capillaries.
The exception is parasites that create “cysts” in internal organs or actively reproduce; their eggs are found in sputum, feces, and urine (extremely rarely in large veins and arteries and never in capillaries, which is contradicted by the pseudo-medical hemoscanning atlas). And it is at the moment of release of the “evidence” that the discharge should be analyzed. This is a separate interesting topic. That is, it is very difficult to 100% confirm or refute the diagnosis of a quack diagnostic method.
Tenth sign. The diagnostic method has not been registered or has a different name in the documentation
This simple scheme is used by medical scammers everywhere: they change the name of a prohibited technique to one that is close to legal. An example is hemoscanning. This diagnostic method is prohibited in the Russian Federation as a medical technology, but it received a license for laboratory diagnostics and procedures for taking blood for analysis, and the control and supervisory authorities are not interested in what they will tell you at the reception. At the same time, hemoscanners quite deliberately violate all possible hygienic requirements for laboratory diagnostics (their manuals write about increasing the number of artifacts due to dirt on the coverslip and slide, and so on).
The Voll diagnostics is referred to in the documentation as a “device for measuring electrical resistance of the skin.” This is exactly what Voll did. But diagnosing anything with the help of a device, much less prescribing treatment, is prohibited (in the USA you can go to jail for this). However, some scammers have legalized their methods, so it is not always possible to distinguish charlatans using this criterion. A detailed analysis of the physical phenomena under which bioresonance is disguised was conducted by resuscitator N.G. Gubin back in 2000, at the dawn of the “era” of medical diagnostic fraud. The article also describes clinical trials of the devices.
Eleventh sign. To confirm the effectiveness of the technique, patents and medals are demonstrated, but never clinical trials.
Sanitary and hygienic compliance only speaks about the safety of the device. A patent is a confirmation of the rights to an invention. The effectiveness of a medical technique or device is confirmed exclusively by reproducible clinical trials. If such tests are successful, we will throw out all the electroencephalographs and install Metatrons with Oberons and Imags in doctors’ offices. So far [clinical trials]( https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%BD %D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81#.D0.9A.D0.BB.D0.B8.D0.BD.D0.B8.D1.87.D0.B5.D1.81.D0.BA. D0.B8.D0.B5_.D0.B8.D1.81.D1.81.D0.BB.D0.B5.D0.B4.D0.BE.D0.B2.D0.B0.D0.BD.D0. B8.D1.8F.) of the same bioresonance fail miserably.
Hanging yourself with medals and diplomas from the Academies of Psychophysics, etc. gives absolutely nothing - 99% of these organizations are public, not scientific. They register like mushrooms after the rain, and obtaining academician status in one of these organizations is a simple paid procedure (check Norbekov’s numerous regalia, for example).
Technologies are improving, including charlatan ones. Previously, “bioresonance headphones” continued to “read” brain fluctuations even from a chair and a soccer ball, now temperature sensors are inserted into them and provide other protection from “clever people.” This is understandable, everyone wants to eat, but everyone’s idea of morality is different. But why are there so many rave reviews about pacifiers?
Why do these methods sometimes work?
When the “operator” of a quack diagnostic device is a doctor, he quickly realizes that the diagnoses are generated by a computer program. Such programs are widely used in various fields of science, forensics and engineering. These are so-called expert decision-making systems, the algorithm for constructing a diagnosis is based on the entered data - age, gender, complaints.
Naturally, a doctor with a “trained eye” and without diagnostics sees and hears your problems - yellowness of the whites, sweaty hands, loose skin of diabetics, yellow fingers of smokers, and so on.
A good doctor can be compared to a mentalist who masters the “cold reading” method. Correctly asked questions about your place of work, “about life,” even seemingly small talk, can say a lot about your condition. A pastry chef idling a shift behind a conveyor belt is 90% likely to have problems with varicose veins, and if the patient is over 60, we can confidently diagnose high blood pressure. Everything noticed by the operator is also entered into the program. This is how a diagnosis is formed, which often “hits the mark.”
Diagnostics by aura for cosmoenergetics
This applies not only to bioresonance. Auroscopy, hemoscanning, iridology, dermatoglyphics from the same song. It’s worth mentioning separately about dermatoglyphics - the RAS Commission on Pseudoscience took this fraudulent diagnostic method seriously and did not allow palmistry to be “smuggled” into educational institutions to identify gifted children. Check out their memorandum .
The most popular quack diagnostic methods
- Bioresonance diagnostics and its clones (Vegetative resonance testing; NLS diagnostics; non-linear diagnostics; computer diagnostics; diagnostics using the Voll method).
- Hemoscanning (Diagnostics using a living drop of blood; Blood tests on a dark-field microscope; Biocytonics; Hemaview and several other English-language names). Worldwide, the pinnacle of high-tech fraud. In the video lecture below, A. Vodovozov talks about diagnostics using a drop of blood and comments on the video seminar of hemoscanners. Article Diagnostics by blood: how it’s done in the popular science publication Popular Mechanics.
- Iridology or diagnosis by the iris of the eye. Material on the method in Skeptic.
- Dermatoglyphics. article in Popular Mechanics about diagnostics using fingerprints: [Palmistry of the 21st century: is the study of lines on the palms unscientific?]( https://www.popmech.ru/science/240654-khiromantiya-xxi-veka -antinauchno-li-izuchenie-liniy-na-ladonyakh/)
Bonus from the FDA: signs of drug fraud according to the US Department of Health
U.S. The Food and Drug Administration (a department of the US Department of Health) has published its list of signs of quackery in medicine:
- The effectiveness and safety of the product has not been confirmed by RCTs (randomized controlled trials).
- Advertising is carried out through newspapers, television, cyberspace. Medicines cannot be advertised in most countries of the world (not in the Russian Federation and Ukraine).
- Most often, fake or potentially dangerous drugs are drugs for weight loss, potency, “memory” or nootropics, for Alzheimer’s and diabetes. Pseudo-medicines for cancer occupy a special place.
- Dietary supplements very often contain prohibited or prescription substances, and in doses exceeding the permissible limits. Most often they are found in supplements for weight loss and potency.
- Charlatans don’t stop with substances. New diagnostic and therapeutic devices that have nothing to do with evidence-based medicine are monitored every year. Most often: light-projecting devices for the treatment of fungus, psoriasis, melanoma.
- Fraudsters very often change websites and rebrand them. This symptom is common throughout the world. Bioresonance diagnostic devices are guilty of this, so the links in this article constantly have to be changed.
- One product cures several diseases. We haven’t yet come up with a “Theory of Everything” for medications, so be suspicious of such products.
- Full of “personal reviews”.
- Declared a quick effect after taking it: “20 kg in a month”, “cancer will recede in a few days” and stuff like that.
- “All substances in the product are natural”. Like fly agaric, belladonna, and arsenic. Natural does not mean safe.
- “Scientific breakthrough”, “secret ingredient”, “new discovery” are always charlatan statements.
- Conspiracy Theories (my favorite). “The pharmaceutical giants are hiding information about effective treatments and preventing us from conducting RCTs.”
Never lose skepticism. Evidence-based medicine offers a lot of working diagnostic methods; we have no need to turn to “magic”. Be healthy!
