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The Reasonable Persons Guide to Strange Ideas next examines one of the most astounding claims on the net.

Some claim that Dr. R. Raymond Rife 1. developed a super microscope, 2. was able to see live viruses, 3. which gave off their own unique light, by which he found that 4. all that forms of human cancer he studied were caused by the same viral infection (BX virus), and that 5. these cancer viruses will shatter both on microscope slides and in living animals when exposed to certain frequencies. 6. His 1934 Rife Ray Equipment at the University of Southern California cured 14 helpless cancer cases after 3 months and eventually 100% of the 16 cures attempted. 7. Rife worked with top people in medicine at his time including doctors at the Mayo Clinic. 8. Rife won scientific awards. 9. Drug companies and electron microscope competition suppressed him and all others who succeeded in duplicating his work.

This Was Rife a scam artist? Did he cure cancer?

No one doubts that Rife was a real individual who did indeed create several unique microscopes. Some very fine pictures of his scopes exist today. The one below is the Universal Microscope, one of 5 scopes purported to have been capable of seeing living viruses.

The Goal of This Site

These pages hope to entice you to think, to learn and to explore science. This article (still a work in progress) will walk you through various Rife claims from the perspective of an open minded independent scientist. Our aim is to make everything in the Reasonable Person's Guide intelligible to anyone with a basic high school or college education.

To understand the claims, we must first define a few terms such as: "Abbe Limit," "Resolving Power" and "Microscope Diameters."

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