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Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦

“Med beds are fictitious healing beds that can reverse any disease, regenerate limbs, and de-age people and animals, often claimed to be in the possession of militaries all around the world”

ie. Nonsense
#Pseudoscience #AlternativeMed #FactsMatter
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Office for Science and SocietyMed Beds: Not Today, Maybe Tomorrow?“Oh dear, I can just see, when I take the dogs out tonight, I’m gonna have all of these people standing around that only I can see because, you know, they’re very directional like that.” The woman, who sounds Australian, is sitting outside a house with a headset on, half an hour into a livestream in which she calmly explains to desperate people exactly how their suffering is about to end. There’s just one catch for her: she’s spilling the beans and some folks are not happy about it… folks that may not be of this Earth. Practitioners of so-called alternative medicine often claim their pseudoscientific treatment can help with just about anything, but even they stop short of affirming limb regeneration. There is no such limit for med beds, however. They can do anything. Depending on who you speak to, the technology is available right now, barring a few warnings from regulatory agencies… or the real deal is actually just around the corner. It’s the medical equivalent of the play Waiting for Godot. Any day now. We will all be healed. We just need to pay a small registration fee. Today’s army wants you… to heal Med beds are said to be medical beds loaded with futuristic technology that can heal disease and de-age anyone—even your pets. Images of med beds shared online are clearly computer-generated or just plain AI art, depicting them as MRI scanners with neon lights or as stasis pods not unlike those of Ridley Scott’s Alien. No one has an actual photo of them because, let’s be clear, they don’t exist. On social media platforms like Facebook and Telegram, the mechanisms of action proposed are an incoherent mess of pseudoscientific buzzwords: med beds use ions, and terahertz light waves, and frequencies, and resonances, and AI, and quantum technology, and tachyons. It’s beginning to sound like an out-of-breath child who just watched their first episode of Star Trek. There are three types of med beds—holographic, regenerative, and regression or re-atomization, depending on the source—and at least one write-up plays up what I like to call the appeal to dead geniuses. It’s when a bit of woo is given a philosophical endorsement from beyond the grave by science superstars like Hippocrates and Einstein. Here, it’s Nikola Tesla, who is rumoured to have disappeared for weeks, building the first med bed prototype in a secret laboratory in New York. After all, did he not write that “if you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration”? (That quote is actually disputed.) The idea that illness is due to “bad frequencies” and that putting “good frequencies” back inside the body will heal you is a common trope in alternative medicine, one which simply does not align with our understanding of human biology. But it is an easy pill to swallow for fans of New Age spirituality. Inexplicably, these same fans, who I cannot imagine being massive proponents of the military, have embraced the notion that these all-healing med beds are currently in the possession of the military. Not just the U.S. Armed Forces, but a sort of alliance between all military forces in the world—famously, they all get along and work together, like at the end of the movie Independence Day, and war is a thing of the past. These benevolent military forces will be the ones rolling out the technology for public use. We will all get an appointment to go to a military base, lie down on one of these beds, and get healed from everything. The best part is it will be free. Well, except for one small thing. Does cement have an expiration date? Janice informs me that there are 18 med beds available in Quebec. “It has the most active Quantum Med Beds [sic] centre’s, these med bed centres are scattered across the country and located at military bases,” she writes. The email is emblazoned with a navy seal featuring an eagle, looking like an official U.S. government insignia. I got Janice’s email address from the Facebook group “QUANTUM MED-BEDS TECHNOLOGY.” I wanted to book an appointment. Her email tells me there’s a one-time registration fee: 300$. A different Facebook group, “Med Beds Group,” provides a long list of email addresses to book your appointment depending on the country you’re in. My registration fee? 500$ Canadian! (I asked a friend of mine in England to email the UK address, but three days later, he had yet to receive a reply.) If you were looking for the scam, this is it: promising desperate people a non-existent technology and charging them a registration fee to essentially “see the doctor.” Who knows in whose pockets this money ends up? Others, though, have created their own med beds and offered them as a paid service, though the reality fails to live up to the science fiction. Tesla Biohealing—no relation to the car manufacturer—uses the phrase “med bed” to brand one of their interventions: lying down on a bed underneath which are canisters meant to power the whole thing. Except that when one user opened one of them up, she found cement. The label said, “Shelf life: 36 months.” Is that when cement expires? The company got in trouble with the FDA, in part because its canister had been registered as an “infrared lamp” and it was anything but. Another reminder that just because a wellness device is registered or authorized by the FDA does not imply it works; we have to see what it was registered as… and also, it seems, what’s really inside of it. Closer to home, Canadian company Orgo-Life has jumped on the med bed bandwagon. Its own offering is depicted as a woman dressed in a skin-tight outfit with balls stuck to it, not unlike a motion-capture suit, lying down on a massage table, with pyramids and electronics on the floor beneath it. Janice had told me there were 18 med beds in Quebec; on the Orgo-Life website, I found 37 authorized dealers! I think Janice was being humble. But the real peanut butter to the med bed’s jelly, the unavoidable combination, is a woman named Kerrie-Ann Thorton. It would be easy to classify the entire med bed phenomenon as a giant scam; but listening to her, a much sadder state of affairs becomes evident. It’s not Tesla; it’s aliens That Australian-sounding woman live-streaming the upcoming rollout of med beds internationally? That was Thorton, also known as Skye Prince. Her name and likeness are plastered all over Facebook groups dedicated to med beds and asking for registration fees. She claims to have nothing to do with those groups, that she is being impersonated. The real med beds, she says, will be 100% free. Any money they ask you to pay is the sign of a con. In multiple videos, she explains to her followers how they will gain access to a med bed. The Earth’s population has been divided into tiers. The first two include people like Donald Trump: “the mega-rich with a crap load of foreign currency,” she states, adding that those people currently have access to med beds. Maybe Trump’s recent vein situation is a result of him ignoring his standing appointment with such a miraculous device. Thorton is not sure who’s in Tier 3 but knows that most people are in Tier 4B. Governments will give you a phone number to call when it’s your turn. You will answer a few questions over the phone, and a quantum computer will read your vibrational frequency—again, over the phone!—to triage you. The most critically ill will get their appointment that day; the rest will wait according to who needs it most. Thorton should know. She claims to have received the necessary training to operate a med bed. She’s also a psychic medium who says she talks to aliens. News coverage from 2017 depicts her as charging 20$ to watch her attempt to get possessed by an alien entity (she couldn’t do it that day). “[The aliens] will be showing themselves in the next couple of weeks and months,” she told the people in the room. “To everybody. To the world.” Eight years on, we’re still waiting. At the time, she said that Trump was not an alien, but that Kate Middleton was a Draconian hybrid. Draconians are an alien species that look like “10-foot-tall T. rex type things.” Worryingly, she said, “There are 30+ ETs in this room right now… invisible.” Seeing people that aren’t there seems to be a recurring theme. She paused her live stream on med beds to tell her viewers that there was someone, out of frame, staring at her, head resting on their hand, as if to say, “Keep going.” That’s after she almost revealed that the military base where Tiers 1 and 2 people are going to get their med bed treatment is Area 51. She laughs it off and says, “This is funny….” As I’ve argued before, our reflex these days seems to be to condemn all nonsense as a scam, a grift, a con, like we are being defrauded by liars who want our money. And these grifters do exist: those registration fees are, I think, a testament to that. But some influential people, like Thorton, really believe there are “a thousand different races of Reptilians and 90% of them are loving,” and it is their technology that is being used by the military—not Nikola Tesla’s—to bring about a revolution in healthcare. The fact that so much of this is taking place in the United States, whose politicians have turned their backs on universal healthcare, is particularly ironic and sad. Med beds are buried in a pit of conspiracy theories and so-called fringe beliefs (which are actually quite popular) that would make the average person on the street scratch their head. Those med beds will be made available after NESARA/GESARA is enacted, an economic reorganization proposed by a private American citizen in the 1990s which asked for loan forgiveness and a reform of the global financial system. Meanwhile, John F. Kennedy Jr, who died in a plane crash, is actually alive thanks to a secret military med bed, and Donald Trump only needed to be re-elected in 2024 in order to authorize a wide roll-out of this amazing technology, which will coincide with the release of the JFK and Epstein files. But when the average person falls gravely ill and doctors say there isn’t much they can do, a story as ludicrous as alien healing beds can start to sound plausible enough. And the fact that it’s always just around the corner taps into Christian end-times prophecies: that the world is grim and full of pain, but salvation is incoming. We just have to be patient. I read many desperate posts and comments on those Facebook groups from ordinary people who are looking for some kind of relief from their illness. One person is paralyzed on their left side from a stroke in 2021. One woman’s husband is dealing with a second cancer. A user says they’re travelling soon to have a “triple heart op”… unless, of course, they get the call for the med bed. Another writes in French that they’re eager to gain access but doesn’t know how. “For two years now,” they write, “I no longer see a doctor – no more medication! But it’s becoming urgent.” An official post on July 9 proclaimed in all caps that President Trump had signed the Quantum Restorative Health Systems Executive Order. “The age of miraculous healing has officially begun!” Sadly, people will keep on waiting, unless they’re willing to pay to lie down over a few cans of cement. Take-home message: - Med beds are fictitious healing beds that can reverse any disease, regenerate limbs, and de-age people and animals, often claimed to be in the possession of militaries all around the world - Some companies use the term to sell pseudoscientific interventions, while others scam people into paying a registration fee to get a future appointment at a med bed facility - Kerrie-Ann Thorton, AKA Skye Prince, is a major figure in this community. She claims to know different alien species and that invisible figures are trailing her because she is revealing secrets about the med bed project @‌jonathanjarry.bsky.social
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Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦

Ultrasounds during pregnancy
#Canada #FactsMatter #ObGyn #Medicine #Pregnancy
mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-

Office for Science and SocietyUltrasound During Pregnancy: Sound Advice or Sound the Alarm?Let’s be honest—pregnancy is basically a nine-month exercise in overthinking. Is that sushi safe? Should I be sleeping on my left side? And what, exactly, is in prenatal vitamins anyway? Somewhere on that ever-expanding list sits the ultrasound: a routine, widely used tool that some corners of the internet have started side-eyeing with suspicion. In this article, we’re turning down the noise and turning up the facts. We’ll break down why ultrasounds are used, what science says about their safety, and why your best source of information still isn’t your friend’s cousin’s doula’s wellness blog. Why Ultrasounds Are a Pregnancy Staple Ultrasounds are more than just your baby’s first photo op (although, let’s admit it—that blurry little blob is adorable). These scans give healthcare providers vital info, including: Estimating your due date based on fetal measurements. Checking for ectopic pregnancies, where the embryo implants outside the uterus. Monitoring fetal heart rate, growth, and movement. Spotting placenta previa, where the placenta covers the cervix (not ideal for delivery). Determining the baby’s sex, if you want to know—and if the baby feels like cooperating. In short, ultrasounds aren’t just routine—they’re revelatory. But... Is It Safe? Here’s where things get noisy. The internet is buzzing with fears about “ultrasound heating,” especially around Doppler ultrasound, which uses continuous sound waves to measure blood flow. Yes, it’s true that ultrasound waves can be absorbed by tissue and converted into heat—and Doppler ultrasound, which is used to assess blood flow, is particularly noteworthy here. Unlike routine B-mode scans that use short, pulsed sound waves, Doppler uses continuous or high repetition rate signals, delivering more energy to a single spot. This makes it more likely to generate heat, especially later in pregnancy when fetal bone tissue—which is excellent at absorbing sound energy—can transfer that heat to nearby brain tissue. One review pointed out that up to 75% of this heating can happen within the first 30 seconds of exposure near bone, and that the fetal skull’s development increases sensitivity to this effect. However, it’s important to note that all of the studies discussed in that paper were conducted on animal models, including sheep, guinea pig fetuses, and neonatal pigs—not humans. Moreover, these findings came from controlled experimental conditions using exposure times and intensities much longer and higher than what is used in standard obstetric practice. Nevertheless, given the findings of this review, and others, Doppler ultrasound is scrutinized more closely for potential thermal effects than standard imaging. The World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB) acknowledges this, stating that: “Biologically significant temperature increases have been measured, at or near bone/soft tissue interfaces, during exposure to conditions similar to those used in Doppler diagnostic equipment. The effects of elevated temperatures may be minimised by keeping the time for which the beam passes through any one point in tissue as short as possible.” In clinical practice, this is exactly what trained sonographers and physicians do—they move the probe, limit exposure time, and use the lowest settings necessary to get the needed information. As long as Doppler techniques are used judiciously and briefly, the actual risk remains theoretical, not proven. Then Why the Fuss? Since 1992, the maximum intensity for diagnostic ultrasound in the U.S. has quietly increased over sevenfold, from 94 to 720 mW/cm². What we haven’t seen since? Large-scale, population-based studies evaluating whether these higher levels pose new risks. So, the concern isn’t totally unfounded—it’s just not backed by any evidence of harm so far. Medical societies know this. That’s why regulatory agencies require real-time output display standards—think of them as ultrasound “speedometers”—so clinicians can stay within safe operating zones. TL;DR: Ultrasounds Are (Still) Safe—When Used Wisely Despite higher machine outputs today, expert bodies consistently affirm that the benefits of diagnostic ultrasound outweigh the theoretical risks when performed by trained professionals. That means if you’re pregnant and wondering whether to get that scan, your best bet is simple: Ask your doctor—not your favourite wellness influencer or your friend’s naturopath who thinks kale juice is a cure-all. @‌SophieTsengPellar Sophie Tseng Pellar recently graduated from McGill University with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in the physiology program. She will be continuing her graduate studies in the surgical and interventional sciences program at McGill. Her research interests include exercise physiology, biomechanics and sports nutrition. Part of the OSS mandate is to foster science communication and critical thinking in our students and the public. We hope you enjoy these pieces from our Student Contributors and welcome any feedback you may have!
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CHEN: I am standing up for science because science saves lives

‘Funding scientific and medical research is a nonpartisan issue. We all benefit from its progress, and we all suffer if it stalls’

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Sentinel Colorado · CHEN: I am standing up for science because science saves livesBy Michelle Chen, Guest Columnist
#ScienceMatters#FactsMatter#COpolitics
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