Some years ago, and unbeknownst to me, my wife paid $250 for what was then a BIOPRO Harmonizer, as recommended by her acupuncturist Michael Schpak. As we have recently purchased a gauss meter and were taking stock of the 60Hz environment in our apartment, I found quite a "high" magnetic field throughout. She suddenly recalled that she had the device plugged in by our bed and thought to evaluate it near an outlet at which I had observed a >1 mG field. We plugged the device in. There was absolutely no change in the meter reading. Always suspicious of these miracle devices (and being an electrical engineer), it seemed appropriate to open the device and have a look. I'm a fair guy. Perhaps the device had simply burned out, right? Well here's what I found inside:
The "harmonizer" is a squiggly bit of copper connected to one of the poles of the plug. No active elements at all. Worse yet, the plug is not polarized. I found when I plugged the thing in in one configuration (squiggle connected to the "hot" lead of the outlet, the "harmonizer" itself became a new source of EMF. My God friends. When will we stop believing in miracle cures for "hard" problems and deprive these thieves of their livelihood?
