SciShow : 5 Scientists with Ideas That Nobody Believed ... Who Were Right

Its seems we need overwhelming proof ,not just an apple but get hit by the tree to know its helpful

It's a shame everything is based on profit

I would still like to know if this gizzmo was anything.

I am invested from loses.. and in wait for another.

The needed audience and funds from a inheritance put to good use.

but a few trees will need to be moved.

Quote from Alan Smith

http://sustainable-nano.com/20…pe-and-why-it-cant-exist/

As you can see, Royal Rife was a remarkable technician, who worked for Zeiss Microscopes for many years, building what he called 'Universal microscopes' that he claimed could see things no other optical microscope could. But his claims have got little support elsewhere. Strangely enough, I can see some overlap between his claims, and some of the more recent work of Piantelli.

I have very little time for guys making weird claims (like Rife) without good evidence. They are usually (as Rife) misrepresenting evidence. The trouble is that the press (and people in general) like "I've discovered something new" stories and disentangling what is real and what is not can be difficult.

For example in this case the claims to see viruses optically are on the edge of theoretically (though not practically) possible. You can see sub-wavelength objects: they have some affect on the waves, just this is very difficult and would not lead to sharp edges. And with complex optics I'm sure separating artifactual specks from real objects must be challenging.

For this reason I don't blame Rife. We should blame those who do not have a skeptical attitude towards the claims. If we find it so difficult to sort out reality from fiction we can understand that an inventor, secure in their own strengths (in this case Rife was a brilliant technician), can make the same mistakes. Once this turns into a public claim, with all the limelight and humiliation if it turns out wrong, things get difficult.

Although he is an interesting figure in history, Royal Rife is an incredibly difficult person to obtain accurate information on. This is because he also claimed to have invented a cure for cancer (he didn’t) and his “medical work” underwent a pseudoscientific revival in the 1980s. In this blog post, we cover only his microscopy inventions (or lack thereof). Accurate information on his medical research is scarce and difficult to find amongst all the sales pitches for his so-called cure