I was told this book was must reading for someone like myself who wanted to know more about electrical energy and healing. The first three parts of this book, 225 pages, are about Dr. Becker’s journey as a scientist and the fascinating discoveries on the healing potential of the human body. Dr. Becker details descriptions of experiments on laboratory animals. These early chapters were not easy to read for me.

The last part of the book was much easier reading. Here, Dr. Becker moved me to think outside the box about the potential effects on the human body from invisible energy fields. Chapter 14, explains how the earth’s electromagnetic activity can have a profound effect on all life on earth. In Chapter 15, however, Dr. Becker invites us to ponder how artificial energies, especially from the defense department and the communications networks, are interacting in such a complex fashion that it may be near to impossible to know how it is impacting life on the planet.

Dr. Becker urges us to keep an open mind. He summarizes it best in the last paragraph of his book. “I’ve taken the trouble to recount my experience in detail for two reasons. Obviously, I want to tell people about it because it makes me furious. More important, I want the general public to know that science isn’t run the way they read about it in the newspapers and magazines. I want lay people to understand that they cannot automatically accept scientists’ pronouncements at face value, for too often, they’re self-serving and misleading. I want our citizens, nonscientists as well as investigators, to work to change the way research is administered. The way it’s currently funded and evaluated, we’re learning more and more about less and less, and science is becoming our enemy instead of our friend.”

As a dental practitioner I share Dr. Becker’s stance that any form of research should be open to careful scrutiny. I try to keep abreast of research in dentistry through professional reading, conferences, and collaboration with colleagues at continuing education classes.