Med Beds: Not Today, Maybe Tomorrow?
secondary literature · 2025
LINK
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-pseudoscience-technology/med-beds-not-today-maybe-tomorrow
SUMMARY
Science-communication article by Jonathan Jarry, M.Sc., of McGill University's Office for Science and Society (published 7 August 2025), examining the 'med bed' phenomenon as medical pseudoscience. Names Tesla BioHealing directly ('no relation to the car manufacturer') as a company using the 'med bed' branding for canisters placed under a bed, recounts that a user who opened one of the canisters 'found cement' inside labeled with a 36-month shelf life, and notes the company 'got in trouble with the FDA, in part because its canister had been registered as an "infrared lamp" and it was anything but.' Characterizes the proposed med-bed mechanisms (ions, terahertz light waves, frequencies, resonances, AI, quantum technology, tachyons) as an incoherent stack of pseudoscientific buzzwords, and frames the registration-fee and device-sale models as preying on desperate people. An established science-based-medicine expert source providing a present-day (2025) independent critique of the active enterprise's current product.
NOTES
Present-day (2025) independent critique from an established science-based-medicine institution (McGill OSS). Cited in this case to satisfy the active-enterprise present-day-critique standard: it post-dates the AP (January 2024) and The Skeptic (August 2024) coverage, names Tesla BioHealing’s current product specifically, and assesses it as pseudoscience on documented grounds (the FDA infrared-lamp registration issue and the cement-filled-canister report).