[sci.electronics] Wires good, drugs bad

jgk@osc.COM (Joe Keane) (03/15/90)

In article <4541@ucrmath.UCR.EDU> baez@x.UUCP (john baez) writes:
>Scores of people have paid $795 for the Alpha-Stim CS, which
>resembles a beeper with earphones.  Dr. Daniel L. Kirsch, a
>neurobiologist and the Alpha-Stim's inventor, says the 
>electrical current produced by the little gray box causes
>the production and release of endorphins (compounds that have
>a pain-relieving effect similar to morphine) in the brain.

Does anyone have specs for a box like this?  If i pay $795 for something, it
damn well better be high power, high speed, high precision, or high something,
and this is none of the above.  It sounds to me like it's just a sine wave
generator!  Well, take the suckers for all they're worth, i guess.