Cyrus Teed was an eclectic physician who liked to experiment with dangerously high levels of electicity. One day, he was badly shocked and passed out. When he came round, Teed proclaimed that he had been visited by a divine being who had informed him that he was the messiah.
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Dr Nick Riviera is a quack physician and has a medical degree from a community college. Though ludicrously incompetent, Riviera has yet to be sued by any of his patients, and is willing to perform any medical procedure for money with little regard to professional ethics.
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Soviet agronomist Trofim Denisovich Lysenko was catapulted to fame in the 1930s through his attempts to tackle the famine caused by the collectivisation of farms. Though mostly inneffectual, his peasant status, staunch support of Leninism and popularity amongst disenfranchised farmers gained the support of the Soviet propaganda machine.
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Dr Albert Abrams (b. 1883) was the founder of the “science” of radionics and inventor of a number of devices that would have revolutionised the field of medicine, had they actually worked.
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John Hutchison is a controversial inventor who claims to have harnessed quantum energy to perform a number of spectacular phenomena. To date, the phenomenon of being published in a peer-reviewed journal is not included in the Hutchison Effect.
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Louis Enricht (b. ?1844) was a US chemist who announced in 1916 that he had invented a substitute for gasoline using a secret substance mixed with ordinary tap water.
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