Nativis Returns

Well, since it's Friday, I thought I'd quickly revisit one of the favorite companies I've written about here: Nativis. You'll recall that this is the outfit that claimed "photonic signatures" of drugs were as effective as the physical molecules themselves. My comments (and those of the readership here) led to some public exchanges with the company's chief financial officer, but last I heard of them they had moved out of San Diego and back to Seattle. Readers mentioned that the company was developing some sort of cancer-treatment device based on their ideas. A couple of alert readers have now sent along links to the latest news. Nativis has produced a device they're calling the "Voyager", which is being tested in veterinary applications. Here is a YouTube video from a clinic that's trying it out. I have no reason to think that the doctor being interviewed is anything but sincere, but I also tend to think that he may not realize just what the opinion of many observers is about the Nativis technology. The veterinarian says things in the clip about how "the healing energy is then emitted to the tumor from this coil" and "The radiofrequency signal is stored on this device and then played, if you will, through this coil, to the tumor itself". He does not appear to be misrepresenting Nativis' claims. I believe that this is the relevant patent application. The first claim reads: "1. An aqueous anti-tumor composition produced by treating an aqueous medium free of paclitaxel, a pacl...
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