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El artículo sobre la Biola se basaba en la obra del doctor Albert Abrams, cuyas Electronic Reactions habían sido examinadas durante unos diez meses por Scientific American junto con la American Medical Association y declaradas sin valor en septiembre de 1924, siete meses antes de que apareciera el artículo.

Claim ID claim-attitudes-biola-after-verdictConcerns 22 de abril de 1925Contexto
Contexto · 22 de abril de 1925 Respaldado

El artículo sobre la Biola se basaba en la obra del doctor Albert Abrams, cuyas Electronic Reactions habían sido examinadas durante unos diez meses por Scientific American junto con la American Medical Association y declaradas sin valor en septiembre de 1924, siete meses antes de que apareciera el artículo. Scientific American, septiembre de 1924Quackwatch, 1 de febrero de 2002The Golden Age, 22 de abril de 1925

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Scientific American, “Our Abrams Verdict”

septiembre de 1924 · p.158 · Austin C. Lescarboura · Munn & Co.

“The Electronic Reactions of Abrams and Electronic Medicine in General Found Utterly Worthless”

The concluding article of Scientific American's investigation of the Electronic Reactions of Abrams, published in volume 131, number 3 (September 1924). The words quoted are the article's own subtitle, quoted in full; the body of the article was not read.

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Nota de procedencia y verificación

Nota de confianza. The article's landing page on scientificamerican.com was opened on 19 September 2026 and confirms the title, the author, the issue (vol. 131 no. 3, September 1924), the page (158) and the subtitle quoted here in full. The full text is behind the publisher's archive paywall and was not read, so the verdict is recorded from the subtitle and from the Quackwatch account rather than from the body of the article. An earlier version of this record quoted only the words 'Found Utterly Worthless', which is a fragment of the middle of that subtitle.

Corroborado por. src-hlth-quackwatch-2002-radionics

Notes. The verdict was published in September 1924, seven months before The Golden Age printed its endorsement of the Biola in April 1925.

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-hlth-sciam-1924-abrams-verdict

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Quackwatch, “Radionics and Albert Abrams, M.D.”

1 de febrero de 2002 · William T. Jarvis, PhD · National Council Against Health Fraud / Quackwatch

“Analyzed in the cold light of scientific knowledge, the entire Abrams matter is the height of absurdity.”

Jarvis's account of the joint Scientific American and American Medical Association investigation of 1923-24, which he says ran about ten months and cost some $30,000. The words quoted are the first sentence of the investigating panel's verdict as he reproduces it; the verdict continues: 'The so-called Electronic Reactions of Abrams do not exist—at least objectively … At best it is all an illusion. At worst, it is a colossal fraud.' He also describes Abrams's 'Oscilloclast' as the prototype of 'black box quackery'.

Fuente oficial

Nota de procedencia y verificación

Nota de confianza. Page opened on 19 September 2026 and the quoted sentence and the surrounding account read. Jarvis is quoting the 1924 panel; the underlying Scientific American text was not opened, so the sentence is recorded as reported by Quackwatch.

Corroborado por. src-hlth-sciam-1924-abrams-verdict

Notes. Used only for independent context on what the Abrams system was and how it was assessed at the time. Abrams died in January 1924.

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-hlth-quackwatch-2002-radionics

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The Golden Age, “Automatic Electronic Diagnosis”

22 de abril de 1925 · pp.451-455 · Dr. R. A. Gamble, Dean of the Norfolk Electronic Institute · Woodworth, Hudgings & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York

“[The Golden Age has fullest confidence in any representations that may be made by Doctor Gamble. He is well known to many of our readers and we are sure they will read this important article with great interest.—Editor.]”

The editor's bracketed note at the head of the issue's lead article, printed above a by-line reading 'By Dr. R. A. Gamble, Dean of the Norfolk Electronic Institute.' The article promotes the 'Electronic Radio Biola', a device the author says he invented: 'The Biola automatically diagnoses and treats diseases by the use of the electronic vibrations. The diagnosis is 100 percent correct'. The author praises the “famous Abrams' Electronic system” on which the device is built, and calls it a discovery 'which I am exclusively announcing in The Golden Age prior to its general publication elsewhere'.

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Nota de procedencia y verificación

Nota de confianza. Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaves mapped to printed pages 451-455; the masthead is on the same leaf as the article's opening. Scanner hyphenation closed up; no words changed.

Procedencia del escaneo. Internet Archive item 'magazines-the-golden-age-1925'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume VI ... Wednesday, April 22, 1925 ... Number 146'.

Corroborado por. src-hlth-ga-1925-1202-mission-golden-age

Notes. The article's own text says of the Biola that 'its price brings it within the reach of every family, even those in the poorest circumstances'. The article is a signed contribution; the bracketed endorsement printed above it is the magazine's own.

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-hlth-ga-1925-0422-electronic-diagnosis

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