Ever thought it would be nice to kill insect pests without spending thousands of dollars on pesticides and countless hours in the sprayer?
Why not consider taking the Hieronymus Device for a spin?
The machine, which was patented by electrical engineer Thomas Galen Hieronymus in the mid-20th century, is based on radionics.
This body of “science” maintains that illness can be diagnosed and treated by detecting its electromagnetic signature and then broadcasting it back to the patient through a radionics machine.
In some circles, Hieronymus is best known for his Eloptic Medical Analyzer, which was supposed to be able to analyze and transmit “eloptic energy” to diagnose and treat medical conditions.
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The claim has many detractors, including an investigative report from 2014 called “The Hieronymus Hoax: Radionics, the Miraculous Pathoclast and Deception.”
The introduction includes this sentence: “This investigation into the Pathoclast (which seems to be another term for the Hieronymus Device) discovers a surprising answer for why people would endorse treatment from a device that doesn’t work for a disease they don’t have.”
Hieronymus’s original business model was to sell his machine to doctors, but sales apparently dried up when medical practitioners realized they were curing their patients too fast and losing business.
Eventually, a new use was needed for the Hieronymus Device, and the inventor turned his sights on making farms a safer place by reducing insecticide use.
The idea was simple: take a photo of your crop, smear a bit of pesticide on it, stick the photo into the Hieronymus Device and let radionics do the rest.
“The resulting energy signature output would be sufficient to kill off the insects that were infecting the plants while maintaining the health and integrity of the plant itself,” according to an article on the internet called “Clean Farming through Radionics and the Discoveries of T. G. Hieronymus.”
So, why aren’t Hieronymus Devices available on the shelves of your local farm supply store?
“The business competition generated by the effectiveness of this radionics method caused a widespread anti-radionics campaign and lobbyist effort from the chemical companies in order to discredit this effective modality as ‘pseudoscience,’ ” says the article from which I just quoted.
I guess that’s one way to look at it.
