Author: Sebastien Point
Laser Acupuncture: High-Tech Placebo
The laser is one of the technological wonders invented during the past century. It took the genius of Einstein and Kastler, then the competition between many brilliant minds of the time, including Townes, Schawlow, Maiman, and Gould, to emit the first laser beam from a ruby in 1960. Since then, applications have continuously increased in …
Free Energy: When the Web Is Freewheeling
In physics, free energy is a mathematical function that quantifies the work performed by a closed thermodynamic system during a reversible transformation at constant temperature. That is, in any case, the definition that you can find in a textbook of physics. On the web, though, the term free energy refers most often to a new …
The Danger of Chromotherapy
Chromotherapy, also known as color therapy, is a pseudomedicine based on a holistic approach and on a mixture of esoteric and scientific concepts. In a nutshell, it is the use of colored light applied on the skin or eyes to heal various health disorders, assuming some (scientifically undescribed) beneficial effects of color on body and …