These look suspiciously like Orgone Accumulators, invented by the Freudian quack, Wilhelm Reich, whose ideas were taken up by the followers of the Frankfurt School. Strangely, search engines do not return skeptical articles, despite the fact the FDA considered them completely fraudulent. So much for Google and Bing's commitment to debunk and suppress "harmful misinformation."
Following two critical articles about him in The New Republic and Harper's in 1947, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration obtained an injunction against the interstate shipment of orgone accumulators and associated literature, believing they were dealing with a "fraud of the first magnitude."[15] Charged with contempt in 1956 for having violated the injunction, Reich was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, and that summer over six tons of his publications were burned by order of the court.[n 2] He died in prison of heart failure just over a year later, days before he was due to apply for parole.[18]
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