Miracle cures: Online conspiracy theories are creating a new age of unproven medical treatments

AP investigative feature (byline David Klepper; datePublished 2024-01-31T14:35:58Z per the page's own schema markup), reported from the Tesla Wellness Hotel and MedBed Center in Butler, Pennsylvania and the Tesla BioHealing & MedBed Center in Milford, Delaware. On-record quote from 'Dr. James Liu, the physician who founded Tesla,' who says he 'earned a medical degree in China and a Ph.D. in human nutrition at Penn State University' and states of his buyers, 'We are not a clinic, not a doctor's office.' He adds: 'For me, for the company, I always call them customers.' Reports canister prices starting at $599 and ranging to $11,000 for the largest model, with cheaper versions for pets and children, and a $450 one-night hotel stay. Quotes Seth Robinson, a chiropractor serving as Tesla BioHealing's medical director; Bahman Anvari, professor of bioengineering at UC Riverside, who says biophotons are real but their therapeutic role 'is not proven'; and Timothy Caulfield, health-policy/law professor at the University of Alberta, on the growth of internet-driven unproven-cure marketing. Documents that Tesla BioHealing is discussed by AP in the context of the QAnon-linked 'medbeds' conspiracy narrative (devices allegedly developed by the military and withheld from the public), including contemporaneous claims that Donald Trump would 'unveil' medbeds if re-elected; the article treats Tesla BioHealing as one commercial seller operating within that broader marketing category, not as the source of the Trump claims themselves.