Topic: Quackery

Northrup recounts her personal history in medicine and her early skepticism of hospital practices. She traces the current state of the medical establishment back to the 1910 Flexner Report and the influence of John D. Rockefeller. According to Northrup, this led to the closure of natural medical schools and the branding of non-pharmaceutical practices as "quackery."

Wilhelm Reich developed weather modification technology that reportedly attracted significant UFO activity, leading to his public branding as a quack. His findings in Orgonomy challenged accepted physical laws, resulting in a brief and failed connection with Albert Einstein in 1940. Robbins argues that Reich's work remains controversial because it threatens the social and moral underpinnings of modern society.

Users of Orgone accumulators often report tingling sensations and the visual perception of "spinning waves" or tiny particles of light. Reich claimed these phenomena were observable in the natural sky but were dismissed by adults due to social conditioning. Establishment science rejected these findings as quackery because the devices did not utilize conventional motors or chemical reactions.