Looking for a last-minute Christmas gift? Doctor Wilhelm Reich, who claimed to be the discoverer of orgone energy (e.g. what other hippies in eastern nations call "chi" and in western nations call "life energy") created the Orgone Accumulator, an alternating wood/metal layered hexagon that absorbed energy from the aether - basically The Force that Boomers like George Lucas still believed in when he was making the original "Star Wars" trilogy - and directed it at people inside.
FDA was a lot more strict then. You couldn't have gotten away with calling plant juice "almond milk" or manufactured "vegan cheese" the way 'anything goes' in food standards of identity today. They investigated him and found his claims were nonsense but, because he claimed medical benefits, also illegal.
One academic told FDA he knew the whole idea was nonsense but found it "helpful because his wife sat in it for four hours every day."
On Amazon, you can still buy plans to build one for your significant other.
Just because it's a placebo doesn't mean it can't add value to your life.
