11 Facts About Royal Rife

Royal Raymond Rife was an American inventor and early exponent of high-magnification time-lapse cine-micrography.

Royal Rife's supporters continue to claim that impulses of electromagnetic frequencies can disable cancerous cells and other microorganisms responsible for diseases.

Some observations Royal Rife claimed to have made with his microscopes are contradicted by modern findings.

Royal Rife reported that a 'beam ray' device of his invention could destroy microbial pathogens.

Royal Rife claimed to have documented a "Mortal Oscillatory Rate" for various pathogenic organisms, and to be able to destroy the organisms by vibrating them using radio waves of this particular frequency.

Royal Rife blamed the scientific rejection of his claims on a conspiracy involving the American Medical Association, the Department of Public Health, and other elements of "organized medicine", which had "brainwashed and intimidated" his colleagues.

Interest in Royal Rife's claims was revived in some alternative medical circles by the 1987 book by Barry Lynes, The Cancer Cure That Worked, which claimed that Royal Rife had succeeded in curing cancer, but that his work was suppressed by a powerful conspiracy headed by the American Medical Association.

Royal Rife described this as "the tip of an enormous iceberg", with a wide range of more elaborate devices on sale from different suppliers, varying widely in design and ranging in price from AU$1,500 to AU$34,000.

Such 'Royal Rife devices' have figured prominently in several cases of health fraud in the US, typically centered around the uselessness of the devices and the grandiose claims with which they are marketed.

Royal Rife devices are currently classified as a subset of radionics devices, which are generally viewed as pseudomedicine by mainstream experts.

The ACS reported that Royal Rife machines were being sold in a "pyramid-like, multilevel marketing scheme".