Interro testing has nothing to do with cars.
It is a device used to assess the amount of
vitamins and minerals that are in your body.
Is it reliable and accurate ?
Man, it wasn’t cool for me to make light of your earlier post on this question. I apologise for that, and will try to make it up to you.
Interro testing is considered a scheme by http://www.quackwatch.com. See http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/electro.html
Specifically, Dr. Stephen Barrett writes:
“Interro device. One probe is held in the patient’s hand. As the other probe is touched to the patient’s other hand or foot, a bar rises on the right side of the computer screen (see arrow), accompanied by a noise. The reading supposedly determines the status of various organs of the body. In 1986, I underwent testing with this device at a clinic in Nevada. I discovered that the movement of the bar and the loudness of the noise were determined only by how hard the probe was pressed to my skin [2].”
It would appear that interro testing is neither reliable nor accurate. Furthermore, the device has been used to perpetrate fraud of a most despicable nature. Consider the following:
“In 1998, the Missouri licensing board charged a chiropractor (Gary Edwards) with falsely telling a patient his HIV (AIDS virus) infection had been cured, leading to infection of the man’s wife and daughter with the virus. According to reports in the Kansas City Star, the patient, who had hemophilia, consulted Edwards after learning that he was infected with the virus. According to the board’s complaint, Edwards said that he could treat the disease with help from an Interro device and prescribed various supplements and herbs. Six months later, he allegedly said that the virus had been eradicated, and the patient and his wife decided to have a child. The child was born in 1992. Tthe patient died a few months later of complications triggered by AIDS, and tests subsequently showed that both mother and daughter were infected [13].”
Now, this is only from one source, but it is a source specifically designed to identify and make note of invalid medical procedures and devices. I will continue to look further to see if there is any counter-evidence, but the prospect does not look good.
I’m assuming you are speaking of the chiropractor Gary Edwards’ Interro nutrition device.
The Kansas City Star calls it quackery aimed specifically at the naiveté of people of the Amish and Mennonite faiths.
Here’s an article addressing the Interro device from a series of stories, called Plain Prey, ©1996, which exposes a whole range of dubious medical practices pointed at these poor rustics.
Thanks for your help about interro testing.
I think the quackwatch doctor is a big jerk.
I have been to his site many times and have
found that he has virtually nothing good to
say about anything that does not involve big
drug companies,big business or the sacred
medical establishment.( he must be a republican)
The other info.seems more reliable,thanks Beer.
Iwas asking about this subject because when I was
in my local drugstore there was a woman with
this device sitting beside the prescription
counter,offering to test anyone who wanted to
try it.My own test was excellent and I didn’t need
any vitamin or mineral supplements.
If you find out any more info. I would appreciate it
Maybe that’s just because there isn’t much good to say about most nontraditional medicine? Keep in mind, that there’s a reason that hospitals use the methods that they do… It’s because they work. Also keep in mind that the purpose of that page is to point out frauds: If it’s not quackery, he doesn’t mention it there.