Unfortunately, it is very un-reliable. In a business atmosphere where such operations as ENRON can commit vast multi-billion dollar fraud against the public year after year, (the biggest contributors to the Bush campaign in their day), the possibility that our industry will be cleaned up soon is scarcely even a prospect.
     It is much like the Chiropractic profession, with respect to the way that it is discredited and maligned through a more or less complete lack of normal business regulation and law enforcement. The way this works is that without the sort of responsible policing most industries enjoy, the Rife business has been a haven sometimes for the unscrupulous. This ruins the public trust in Rife technology.
     Since the very beginning, there has been a predominance of those who take advantage of the fact that people do not understand the technology and have no means by which to determine what is real and what is not real.
     On the Internet, where the typical attitude is in essence, "tell any lie to win", seriously grievous fraud is being perpetrated on the unsuspecting and the ill in a wholesale fashion. Three of the most well known books on the subject were written by people who truly have no clue either. They talk about frequencies and procedures that make no sense at all. Demonstrating to us that they intend to commit fraud, and they have gotten away with it for decades. Even the debunkers, have no credibility, and like most people in the industry, are a lot better at marketing their wares than they are at fulfilling their promises.
     Although it is very easy to prove the effects scientifically, creating a good, safe and reliable instrument for home use, is a real challenge. For this reason, many, and probably most users end up with devices that are laughable when it comes to providing the sort of therapy that users expect. At electronics retailer, you can buy a simple function generator that can be used to prove that the technology works, but it is not capable of performing the therapy to any reasonable extent. 
     Broadcast machines, also called ray beam, ray tube, plasma devices, and any other device that uses a carrier wave to deliver frequency to the body, should not be permitted at all because they cause memory loss, brain damage, and kills cells in the reproductive organs. Rife's Beam Ray was only intended to treat the microscope.
     These broadcast devices employ powerful signals in the microwave range, which most people realize, can kill human cells, cause cancer and a plethora of other disease. Such devices should be outlawed. The risks of devices of this kind must be disclosed to any user, else the maker or practitioner is going to be guilty of withholding a material fact which will result in injury to another, and this is the very definition of fraud.
     It is pathetic, really, since the true technology is very safe, very effective, and can be presented in complete honesty, withholding nothing.
     It took us more than 18 years to develop an inexpensive instrument that does not sacrifice any aspect of the therapy. But users who want to save money often buy a zapper for a hundred dollars, which is a joke technically. It is much too feeble to do any harm. But most users would get better results from a used function generator, or TENS device.
     Web sites pretending to expose quacks, seem to target only the makers with any authenticity and promise, yet ignore the real criminal elements altogether. So, one can only assume that they are there to destroy the industry since they certainly do not protect the public in any way.
     Search engine rankings have nothing at all to do with the quality of a product. Although most thinking people realize this, they are going to see genuine instruments right beside the complete frauds. How are they to know? How can the search engines know? They can't. Unfortunately, they simply can't.
. We have always tried to be responsible stewards of this technology, protecting it and nurturing it as best we can, so that it will always be available to users in its true form. Bad business practice and criminal behavior among manufacturers reflects very poorly on the industry.