Desiré D. Dubounet | |
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Born | William Charles Nelson 19 June 1951 |
Citizenship | USA |
Alma mater |
Youngstown State University Southeastern Louisiana University |
Known for | Designing and selling Radionics devices |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Radionics |
Desiré D. Dubounet (born William Charles Nelson; 19 June 1951 [1]) is an American alternative medicine inventor, filmmaker and performer currently living in Budapest. [2] [3] Dubounet developed the pseudoscientific Electro Physiological Feedback Xrroid, an energy medicine device that is considered to be dangerous to health and has been described as a scam. [2] [4]
Dubounet developed the pseudoscientific EPFX device in the late 1980s which supposedly claimed could diagnose and eliminate diseases including AIDS and cancer. [2] [5] The EPFX device is described as balancing "bio-energetic" forces; bio-energetic forces do not exist. [4] Some people died after using the EPFX system instead of seeking or continuing medical care. [6]
In 1992 the United States Food and Drug Administration ordered Dubounet to stop claiming that the EPFX could diagnose or cure diseases, but she did not; in 1996 she was indicted on nine counts of felony fraud, though none were in relation to the EPFX. [2] Dubounet has since left the United States. [2] [7] Dubounet is also involved in homeopathic medicine; she received a patent for a process for manufacturing homeopathic "remedies" in 1997. [8] At least 10,000 EPFX devices have been sold in the United States. [9]
Dubounet lives in Budapest, [10] and performs at the nightclub Bohemian Alibi. [11] and produced and starred in the English-Hungarian comedy The Story of F***. [3] [12] Dubounet also directed the erotic comedy Paprika Western. [13] [14]
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