Is the Rife story true?
A. That’s difficult to answer. In general, most popular versions of the widely accepted “Rife story” are NOT completely true. They usually contain ELEMENTS of truth, but in retelling, the story often gets distorted and embellished. To give an example, it is widely claimed that Rife unconditionally cured 16 out of 16 cancer patients at an official clinic in 1934. The truth of the matter is more complex. Not all of the 16 were cancer patients. Not all of them were “cured” as most people would understand the term. At least one and possibly others, died shortly after the treatments. No long term follow up studies were done of these patients so it’s impossible to say whether their “cures”” lasted indefinitely. The clinic was not “official” it was a private test with no scientific controls performed by Dr Milbank Johnson, solely to satisfy him personally that the Rife machine had curative “potential”. One of the doctors that Rife claimed certified the patients as “cured” later testified that
