Would you do this to your spouse to stop an argument or to have some quiet time for yourself?
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is this sorta like those tanks?... i forgot what it was called but i faintly remember saturday night live doing a skit on it.... it was a tank with water in it (i think) that they lock themselves in and sit for a while. mmmmmaybe they were called sensory deprivation tanks. but i forgot. anybody remember that?
SeeCanU
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Apr 10, 2019
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Incredible! Today you can get that from spouse with a book, Netflix, a football match, soap opera, a concert, a nap, a spa essential, a day at the races, etc
Merseyman1
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Apr 10, 2019
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Wilhelm Reich, the inventor, was never given a fair hearing by the FDA due to his political and social views. He was hounded to suicide and his books were actually banned and incinerated. Several researchers have duplicated and validated his work. It's open to question how "phony" his invention was, or whether it was the orthodoxy of the FDA that called it so.
Paul4747
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Apr 10, 2019
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"Several researchers have duplicated and validated his work" Citation needed.
@MattHardy See the footnotes in this article. [en.wikipedia.org] Unfortunately the research itself is in German, but it duplicated Reich's experimental result, evidently.
@Paul4747 Thanks Paul, I've tangled with German in the past. Less of a problem than not being able to find a copy online but I see that wikipedia refers to the document as a citation to the statement "Some of Reich's observations have been replicated by other researchers. Stefan Müschenich, in his Master's thesis, demonstrated effects of orgone accumulators on test subjects in keeping with Reich's original descriptions, while subjects exposed to a known "dummy box" showed no such effects" It's not looking like the sort of "extraordinary evidence" we look for to support "extraordinary claims" [en.wikipedia.org]
@MattHardy Since no further research was apparently done (all of Reich's claims having been denounced as quackery, no reputable institution would sponsor such research), we'll very likely never know. But the initial research did seem to verify that something was happening, that did not happen in the dummy box.
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