>Subject: Re: The Zapper?
>From: Tsu Dho Nimh
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>Date: 3/11/2004 3:38 AM Pacific Standard Time
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>"RB" <
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>
>> Do any alts on here have any actual personal experience
>> with Dr. Clarks device for ridding the body of
>> parasites?
>
>>I daresay it may work. Why not?
>
>Why not? Because any electrical field strong enough to KILL
>a parasite in your body would kill your own cells. Applying
>a weak electrical field to the outside of the body does
>nothing in the body: the power is too low to penetrate the
>skin. If you crank up the power so it's penetrating the
>skin, you start seeing burns, twitching nerves, etc. That's
>LONG before its strong enough to penetrate to the
>intrestines where thebulk of the parasites live (if you
>have any).
>
>Why not? Because no one has demonstrated parasites by any
>recognized doiagnostic method and then shown that using the
>zapper got rid of them. Hulda uses another electrical
>widget she devised for diagnosing, not the presence of
>parasite eggs or adults.
>
>Tsu Dho Nimh
>
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