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Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries: Revealing the World's Greatest Secrets of Science and Medicine
A scientist with a revolutionary cure for AIDS is incarcerated without explanation. Valuable artifacts are mysteriously misplaced by a prominent archaeological institution. Three celebrated astronauts perish in a suspicious fire after voicing their criticism of the US space program. Yet our world’s most powerful agencies hastily dispel these alarming reports as conspiracy theories, and bury them in padlocked archives. The fact is that a suppression syndrome exists in our society. Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries exposes the startling degree of truth behind the rumors.
Jonathan Eisen has collected over forty intriguing stories of scientific cover-ups and programs of misinformation concocted to conceal some of the most phenomenal innovations in mankind’s history. These no-holds-barred accounts force us to confront the naiveté—and danger—of trusting our academic and political leaders to act always for the common good. Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries presents documented evidence that corporate self-interest, scientific arrogance, and political savvy have contrived to keep us in the dark about technological breakthroughs or interplanetary contact that may shift the current balance of power.
Prepare yourself for a revealing look at the research and development to which we’ve been denied access. Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries begins by examining the ties that bind the medical establishment to powerful pharmaceutical corporations. Then it details the struggle of the independent research against Orthodox Science and its code of conduct, the Scientific Method. Next, the book investigates the cover-up of information concerning UFOs and extraterrestrial life that’s certain to make you reconsider what you thought was science fiction. The final section discusses just a few of the numerous alternate energy resources and fuel savers that, if put on the market today, would soon run the fossil fuel monopolies out of business.
Jonathan Eisen has collected over forty intriguing stories of scientific cover-ups and programs of misinformation concocted to conceal some of the most phenomenal innovations in mankind’s history. These no-holds-barred accounts force us to confront the naiveté—and danger—of trusting our academic and political leaders to act always for the common good. Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries presents documented evidence that corporate self-interest, scientific arrogance, and political savvy have contrived to keep us in the dark about technological breakthroughs or interplanetary contact that may shift the current balance of power.
Prepare yourself for a revealing look at the research and development to which we’ve been denied access. Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries begins by examining the ties that bind the medical establishment to powerful pharmaceutical corporations. Then it details the struggle of the independent research against Orthodox Science and its code of conduct, the Scientific Method. Next, the book investigates the cover-up of information concerning UFOs and extraterrestrial life that’s certain to make you reconsider what you thought was science fiction. The final section discusses just a few of the numerous alternate energy resources and fuel savers that, if put on the market today, would soon run the fossil fuel monopolies out of business.
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First published January 1, 2001
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June 7, 2016
Suppressed Inventions & Other Discoveries is a collection of articles and abstracts that is a valuable resource of substantial and credible evidence that is supportive of the belief that significant inventions and scientific discoveries have been suppressed. Jonathan Eisen has brought together over forty articles and abstracts that, in many cases, tell compelling stories clearly worth serious investigation by mainstream science.
There are various reasons or motives for the suppression of revolutionary or paradigm shifting discoveries, but they all come down to a combination of 1) egoistic attachment to the status quo and conventional paradigms, 2) financial interests in maintaining current markets (do you think the oil industry might have an incentive to impede the development of alternative energy technologies?), 3) the revolving door between government regulatory employees and industry, 4) the entrenchment of academia, 5) the monopoly concentration of media ownership and 6) the military. Together, there is a natural motivation that is supportive of this intersecting complex of interests.
Eisen's book is well-worth reading, and in this review I will only mention of few of the articles that serve as an excellent introduction for further research.
In "Does Medicine Have a Bad Attitude" by James P. Carter the author reports on a March 1990 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Dr. David Horrobin entitled "The Philosophical Basis of Peer Review and The Suppression of Innovation" that argues that medical innovation is not infrequently met with unscientific prejudice in order to create contrived barriers and resistance. This is a relatively tame example of far more troubling stories told in Suppressed Inventions & Other Discoveries, but it does establish the mentality of suppression.
One of the notorious examples of medical suppression is told in the story of Royal Raymond Rife. Eisen's book contains an abstract of The Cancer Cure That Worked!: Fifty Years of Suppression by Barry Lynes. Lynes' recounts the story of Rife's development of a powerful microscope that was vastly more powerful than any other optical microscope of its day or since, and unlike modern day electron microscopes, it is claimed that microbes could be observed in their live states. Ultimately, Rife's microscope was capable of determining through a light staining process the unique light frequencies of microorganisms. The high magnification and the staining of the microorganisms for frequency made it possible to attempt to destroy pathogens with finely tuned radio frequencies that, through destructive resonance, might destroy them. A significant number of physicians claimed success in using the microscopes and the frequency device therapies. However, Rife and his associates had now to endure years of harassment by the AMA and government regulators.
The questions that needs to be asked is straightforward and simple: Why have there not been objective, scientific research to determine if either Rife's microscopes or frequency devices worked as claimed and clinical trials organized to test efficacy? The story of suppression has this ongoing theme that has been repeated endlessly. If it can't be true, then don't test it. And since there has been no officially monitored scientific testing, these inventions are the mere claims of charlatans.
In "Gunfire in the Laboratory: T. Henry Moray and the Free Energy Machine" by Jeanne Manning a similar story of suppression is told. Moray had developed a machine in the 1920s and 1930s that appears to have generated up to 50,000 watts of electricity with no observable or ascertainable power source. The device seemed to be pulling energy out of the air! Once again, however, the process of harassment developed including death threats and the actual wounding of Moray. Some of Moray's patents mysterious vanished from the files of the U.S. patent office. However, the fact is that Moray's invention was demonstrated to many credible observers, perhaps most notably the renowned physicist Harvey Fletcher, who signed an affidavit about two years before his death stating that "I did not know how the device functioned and do not know today, but I do know that it did function for the several hours of the time that I observed it. I could discern no batteries, and could observe no other known methods of inducing electric power into the box or its loads." (quote is from the direct source, not Eisen's book).
Suppressed Inventions contains of plethora of claims that, frankly, are an embarrassment to science, not because the claims are necessarily valid, but because mainstream institutions of science sometimes behave as though the closed-mind is the scientific mind.
Another article by Jeanne Manning, "Antigravity on the Rocks: the T. T. Brown Story" tells of the apparent anti-gravity inventions of T. Townsend Brown. Townsend built Saucer-shaped discs---with no moving parts---that could travel through the air at hundreds of miles per hour. Once, again, a seeming breakthrough of momentous proportions was thwarted only this time it was the U.S. military that broke into his apartment, and academia provided the cold shoulder that effectively blocked further research.
Many other claimed inventions are discussed in the book, including a long list of alternative automotive designs that are claimed to dramatically reduce or eliminate the use of gasoline or petroleum.
Cavalier dismissals of alternative science and technology, much like the disregarding of serious claims of conspiracy, is nothing less than a dismissal of the importance of truth. If we are to merely accept what the financial, political, academic and military power complex wants us to believe then we will truly become a society of robots and stooges. Suppressed Inventions & Other Discoveries is an important book because it provides an introduction to subject matter that must be addressed if we, as a people, treat democracy, freedom and truth as matters to be taken seriously. Or we can just be "happy," follow the herd, be a member of the herd and ask no questions.
There are various reasons or motives for the suppression of revolutionary or paradigm shifting discoveries, but they all come down to a combination of 1) egoistic attachment to the status quo and conventional paradigms, 2) financial interests in maintaining current markets (do you think the oil industry might have an incentive to impede the development of alternative energy technologies?), 3) the revolving door between government regulatory employees and industry, 4) the entrenchment of academia, 5) the monopoly concentration of media ownership and 6) the military. Together, there is a natural motivation that is supportive of this intersecting complex of interests.
Eisen's book is well-worth reading, and in this review I will only mention of few of the articles that serve as an excellent introduction for further research.
In "Does Medicine Have a Bad Attitude" by James P. Carter the author reports on a March 1990 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Dr. David Horrobin entitled "The Philosophical Basis of Peer Review and The Suppression of Innovation" that argues that medical innovation is not infrequently met with unscientific prejudice in order to create contrived barriers and resistance. This is a relatively tame example of far more troubling stories told in Suppressed Inventions & Other Discoveries, but it does establish the mentality of suppression.
One of the notorious examples of medical suppression is told in the story of Royal Raymond Rife. Eisen's book contains an abstract of The Cancer Cure That Worked!: Fifty Years of Suppression by Barry Lynes. Lynes' recounts the story of Rife's development of a powerful microscope that was vastly more powerful than any other optical microscope of its day or since, and unlike modern day electron microscopes, it is claimed that microbes could be observed in their live states. Ultimately, Rife's microscope was capable of determining through a light staining process the unique light frequencies of microorganisms. The high magnification and the staining of the microorganisms for frequency made it possible to attempt to destroy pathogens with finely tuned radio frequencies that, through destructive resonance, might destroy them. A significant number of physicians claimed success in using the microscopes and the frequency device therapies. However, Rife and his associates had now to endure years of harassment by the AMA and government regulators.
The questions that needs to be asked is straightforward and simple: Why have there not been objective, scientific research to determine if either Rife's microscopes or frequency devices worked as claimed and clinical trials organized to test efficacy? The story of suppression has this ongoing theme that has been repeated endlessly. If it can't be true, then don't test it. And since there has been no officially monitored scientific testing, these inventions are the mere claims of charlatans.
In "Gunfire in the Laboratory: T. Henry Moray and the Free Energy Machine" by Jeanne Manning a similar story of suppression is told. Moray had developed a machine in the 1920s and 1930s that appears to have generated up to 50,000 watts of electricity with no observable or ascertainable power source. The device seemed to be pulling energy out of the air! Once again, however, the process of harassment developed including death threats and the actual wounding of Moray. Some of Moray's patents mysterious vanished from the files of the U.S. patent office. However, the fact is that Moray's invention was demonstrated to many credible observers, perhaps most notably the renowned physicist Harvey Fletcher, who signed an affidavit about two years before his death stating that "I did not know how the device functioned and do not know today, but I do know that it did function for the several hours of the time that I observed it. I could discern no batteries, and could observe no other known methods of inducing electric power into the box or its loads." (quote is from the direct source, not Eisen's book).
Suppressed Inventions contains of plethora of claims that, frankly, are an embarrassment to science, not because the claims are necessarily valid, but because mainstream institutions of science sometimes behave as though the closed-mind is the scientific mind.
Another article by Jeanne Manning, "Antigravity on the Rocks: the T. T. Brown Story" tells of the apparent anti-gravity inventions of T. Townsend Brown. Townsend built Saucer-shaped discs---with no moving parts---that could travel through the air at hundreds of miles per hour. Once, again, a seeming breakthrough of momentous proportions was thwarted only this time it was the U.S. military that broke into his apartment, and academia provided the cold shoulder that effectively blocked further research.
Many other claimed inventions are discussed in the book, including a long list of alternative automotive designs that are claimed to dramatically reduce or eliminate the use of gasoline or petroleum.
Cavalier dismissals of alternative science and technology, much like the disregarding of serious claims of conspiracy, is nothing less than a dismissal of the importance of truth. If we are to merely accept what the financial, political, academic and military power complex wants us to believe then we will truly become a society of robots and stooges. Suppressed Inventions & Other Discoveries is an important book because it provides an introduction to subject matter that must be addressed if we, as a people, treat democracy, freedom and truth as matters to be taken seriously. Or we can just be "happy," follow the herd, be a member of the herd and ask no questions.
February 25, 2014
Some interesting information mixed with useless and fraudulent.
July 24, 2019
For hard-core conspiracy theorists only
It's hard to put much faith in book that begins with an introduction that talks about an inventor who came up with a way to make any car with a gasoline engine run on water and get 100 miles per gallon. Unfortunately, after progress in developing his invention was "mysteriously halted," his formula died with him. Also tough to swallow is the claim on pages 146-149 that a certain Gaston Naessens discovered "the world's smallest living organism," an organism "revealed to be virtually indestructible," an organism so hard that it is "impossible to cut with a diamond knife." Unfortunately, as in the cold fusion delusion a few years back, Naessens's claim has gone unsubstantiated.
Far be it from me to spoil anyone's fun, but when people start presenting phony cancer cures, as is done in this book in the section dealing with "suppressed" medical therapies, I tend to take it personally. Cancer is hellish enough without having to spend your last few precious hours (and dollars) wading through a forest of fake cures. The really terrible thing about this book is the fact that there is a very real danger that the big drug companies and the AMA might very well be overlooking and denigrating valid therapies, but we're not going to find out about them from a book that claims, for example, that NASA is suppressing telescopic evidence of canals and a flourishing plant life on Mars (pp. 382-396).
The problem for the layman has always been how to separate the truth from the paranoid delusions of conspiracy theorists or the apocryphal experience of a few people. This book, a cockeyed collection of fantastic conspiracy theories, I am sorry to report, does not help.
--Dennis Littrell, author of “The World Is Not as We Think It Is”
It's hard to put much faith in book that begins with an introduction that talks about an inventor who came up with a way to make any car with a gasoline engine run on water and get 100 miles per gallon. Unfortunately, after progress in developing his invention was "mysteriously halted," his formula died with him. Also tough to swallow is the claim on pages 146-149 that a certain Gaston Naessens discovered "the world's smallest living organism," an organism "revealed to be virtually indestructible," an organism so hard that it is "impossible to cut with a diamond knife." Unfortunately, as in the cold fusion delusion a few years back, Naessens's claim has gone unsubstantiated.
Far be it from me to spoil anyone's fun, but when people start presenting phony cancer cures, as is done in this book in the section dealing with "suppressed" medical therapies, I tend to take it personally. Cancer is hellish enough without having to spend your last few precious hours (and dollars) wading through a forest of fake cures. The really terrible thing about this book is the fact that there is a very real danger that the big drug companies and the AMA might very well be overlooking and denigrating valid therapies, but we're not going to find out about them from a book that claims, for example, that NASA is suppressing telescopic evidence of canals and a flourishing plant life on Mars (pp. 382-396).
The problem for the layman has always been how to separate the truth from the paranoid delusions of conspiracy theorists or the apocryphal experience of a few people. This book, a cockeyed collection of fantastic conspiracy theories, I am sorry to report, does not help.
--Dennis Littrell, author of “The World Is Not as We Think It Is”
July 25, 2011
Really amazing stories - but disturbing too. If these stories are true (and there seems evidence that there is something behind them all), then those who have ensured the ruin and suppression of these inventions is truly evil. To think we may have already seen cures for cancer, AIDS, the energy crisis and multiple other pressing issues, and theyve been bought out / destroyed / suppressed in the name of greed and power, truly sad state for the world to be in.
March 16, 2014
I am in the process of reading, and what I would say so far is that it is a very well laid out book. Each chapter can be read individually and the book is split into sections which have shaded page markers that can be seen when the pages are closed. The chapters too have the same markings at the top of the page.
December 31, 2017
"Arrogant Ignorance"
This book explains true stories about dissimulation of science and suppression of other brilliant inventions. We never told by our teacher that those inventor need years to fight for the truth. Don't forget to mention those who have private interest. There will always be people who resist against change. Did your teacher ever tell you that Nikola Tesla died with his desperation because of no one recognized his invention? Do you know that actually cancer is something protected under pharmacy industry and the international organization? Do you know that scientist who discovered revolutionary method to handle AIDS was jailed without valid reason? Vaccine. HIV. AIDS. Ebola. Biological weapon. Mercury. Fluoride. Cancer industry. Pharmacy factories. UFO. FDA. DOD. PHS. CIA. NASA. WHO. Forgotten scientist. Suppression. Conspiracy.
Never thought that life could be this... cruel. Discussion with experts and literature review is urgently needed.
"We always reminded by old proverb: Where there is smoke, there is fire. After you read this book, you will realize that this world is already full of smoke!" - Amazon.com
This book explains true stories about dissimulation of science and suppression of other brilliant inventions. We never told by our teacher that those inventor need years to fight for the truth. Don't forget to mention those who have private interest. There will always be people who resist against change. Did your teacher ever tell you that Nikola Tesla died with his desperation because of no one recognized his invention? Do you know that actually cancer is something protected under pharmacy industry and the international organization? Do you know that scientist who discovered revolutionary method to handle AIDS was jailed without valid reason? Vaccine. HIV. AIDS. Ebola. Biological weapon. Mercury. Fluoride. Cancer industry. Pharmacy factories. UFO. FDA. DOD. PHS. CIA. NASA. WHO. Forgotten scientist. Suppression. Conspiracy.
Never thought that life could be this... cruel. Discussion with experts and literature review is urgently needed.
"We always reminded by old proverb: Where there is smoke, there is fire. After you read this book, you will realize that this world is already full of smoke!" - Amazon.com
February 20, 2025
Reading this book is enough to make your blood boil! The suppression of inventions that would benefit humanity goes back before the turn of the century! No question there is vested interests in the oil industry to keep the dependency on oil going! Free energy? So many inventions to provide free energy to the world it's not funny. UFOs? Alien life? Massive cover-ups. Seems that the vested interests are not adverse to "bumping off" those who threaten their ongoing wealth.
Tesla? Such injustice to a man who invented so much to benefit humanity.
The info is backed up with citations of patents, articles from Journals and the authors own testimony.
Meanwhile... the dependency on oil to power cars is a big money spinner that the greedy elites simply will not yield to. For no other reason I found this book a "page turner"... simply to read how many inventions have been suppressed.. and how long ago they were invented!
Meanwhile the planet cries for wind and solar energy production which begs the question... "who benefits?". Not humanity!
Tesla? Such injustice to a man who invented so much to benefit humanity.
The info is backed up with citations of patents, articles from Journals and the authors own testimony.
Meanwhile... the dependency on oil to power cars is a big money spinner that the greedy elites simply will not yield to. For no other reason I found this book a "page turner"... simply to read how many inventions have been suppressed.. and how long ago they were invented!
Meanwhile the planet cries for wind and solar energy production which begs the question... "who benefits?". Not humanity!
October 27, 2021
Embarrassing pseudo-literate garbage from former entertainment journalist and editor Jonathan Eisen.
While Eisen claims to have medical staff in his direct family, only a complete moron could recommend Eisen's fake science book, many pages report absurd scaremongering and misinformation over the polio epidemic of the 50s and 60s in Western nations, elsewhere he discusses how and why AIDS comes from receiving vaccines. The author also offers fantasy fiction about flourishing plants and water sources across Mars, all kept secret of course. Elsewhere he drops the bomb that you can run a powerful combustion engine on water, another suppressed "fact", or bullshit sandwich if you will, and Eisen has plenty to offer.
Mr Eisen runs the endlessly racist and dishonest "Uncensored" magazine and encourages vaccine alarmism without scientific evidence in The New Zealand Journal of Natural Medicine. An American by nature (and trade), he's the worst kind of tabloid trash snake oil salesman to appear in the small pacific country, his magazine efforts little more than fake Russian news websites copy/pasted into print format.
Avoid this book, and anything with his name on it. Avoid him, frankly.
While Eisen claims to have medical staff in his direct family, only a complete moron could recommend Eisen's fake science book, many pages report absurd scaremongering and misinformation over the polio epidemic of the 50s and 60s in Western nations, elsewhere he discusses how and why AIDS comes from receiving vaccines. The author also offers fantasy fiction about flourishing plants and water sources across Mars, all kept secret of course. Elsewhere he drops the bomb that you can run a powerful combustion engine on water, another suppressed "fact", or bullshit sandwich if you will, and Eisen has plenty to offer.
Mr Eisen runs the endlessly racist and dishonest "Uncensored" magazine and encourages vaccine alarmism without scientific evidence in The New Zealand Journal of Natural Medicine. An American by nature (and trade), he's the worst kind of tabloid trash snake oil salesman to appear in the small pacific country, his magazine efforts little more than fake Russian news websites copy/pasted into print format.
Avoid this book, and anything with his name on it. Avoid him, frankly.
December 13, 2011
1296th - 2011
April 18, 2017
This is an America-centric collection of writings (various articles, patents, letters, etc.) from the 1990s that, while they are on the subject of this book, weren't written for this book. By which I mean Eisen hasn't rounded up a bunch of authors and asked them to write for Suppressed Inventions, rather it appears he has collated from existing sources. Nothing wrong with that! But I would have liked to see attribution - "first appeared in" and so forth. Because some of the contributions are decades older than the book, but there's no obvious acknowledgement of this. Clearly the chapters dealing with the space age are a little more current, but the bulk of the medical chapters are focused on the first half of the twentieth-century - and that is where they are left. I mean there's some interesting stuff there, but it's hindered by poor presentation. It really needed an editor to give historical context - alright, you've got a whole lot on Harry Hoxsey, even some stuff by him, but he's long dead. And frustrating as he must have found it to be stymied by the AMA in the 1930s, how are his ideas perceived when the book was written some 60 odd years later? Are his ideas achieving contemporary success, or has he been thoroughly debunked? I've no idea, but in this book he exists only in a historical bubble. This is a consistent problem all the way through, and it became more irritating the longer it went on. I'm not asking to be spoonfed, but I do expect an editor to do more than slap chapters together and hope for the best.
As for the content, some of it was more convincing than others. I am absolutely prepared to believe, for instance, that oil industries are doing their best to smother clean and/or renewable energy. I think that's fairly well established by now. I was surprised and impressed to find references to some well-known and reputable journals backing up some of the authors, but others were less convincing - papers submitted to journals (but not accepted or published) have no place in reference sections, and if you want to stop my eyes from rolling, please refrain from randomly capitalised conspiracy speak ("...VESTED INTERESTS, who are trying to prevent it use by means of such tactics as the FALSE ISSUE .... and even VIOLENCE against the inventors" p. 352). Frankly, if you want to get people to take you seriously you've got to encourage them by not, say, describing an advanced flying machine and then adding that the inventor claimed to hide said machine from the government in a secret Antarctic valley (p.338), because now I am sceptical of everything that person ever claimed to achieve, and am side-eyeing those that choose to believe him.
As for the content, some of it was more convincing than others. I am absolutely prepared to believe, for instance, that oil industries are doing their best to smother clean and/or renewable energy. I think that's fairly well established by now. I was surprised and impressed to find references to some well-known and reputable journals backing up some of the authors, but others were less convincing - papers submitted to journals (but not accepted or published) have no place in reference sections, and if you want to stop my eyes from rolling, please refrain from randomly capitalised conspiracy speak ("...VESTED INTERESTS, who are trying to prevent it use by means of such tactics as the FALSE ISSUE .... and even VIOLENCE against the inventors" p. 352). Frankly, if you want to get people to take you seriously you've got to encourage them by not, say, describing an advanced flying machine and then adding that the inventor claimed to hide said machine from the government in a secret Antarctic valley (p.338), because now I am sceptical of everything that person ever claimed to achieve, and am side-eyeing those that choose to believe him.
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