Dardik's Team Blocks Reporters Attempt to Meet With Fleischmann by Steven B. Krivit
TISBURY, U.K. -- A pre-arranged meeting between this reporter and Professor Martin Fleischmann, co-discoverer of "cold fusion," failed to occur yesterday, allegedly as a result of Fleischmann's failing health.
Fleischmann had recently been in the U.S. receiving treatments from Irving Dardik's LifeWaves program. Fleischmann is suffering from Parkinson's disease and diabetes.
The program, which, according to Dardik, can heal any disease, is based on the same concept that Dardik uses in his SuperWaves to trigger low-energy nuclear reactions.
In 2004, this reporter interviewed Dardik about the way the process delivers the waves to the patient; however, the reporter did not understand Dardiks explanation.
Fleischmann had told this reporter several months ago that he was going to the U.S. for several months to work with Dardik, though Fleischmann did not specify whether he was going for treatment by Dardik or for collaborative LENR research with Dardik.
This week, Sheila Fleischmann told this reporter that her husband has been confined to his bed since returning to the U.K. several days ago. He has been unable to see visitors or take phone calls, she said.
Along with Sheila Fleischmann, Ryan Freilino met this reporter at the door of the Fleischmann home in Tisbury on Thursday. Freilino introduced himself as part of the "U.S. health team" that was caring for Fleischmann.
Freilino, 23, is the chief operating officer and head trainer for LifeWaves International, LLC, based in Califon, N.J. According to his companys Web site, his education comprises an undergraduate degree in biology earned at Bucknell University, in Pennsylvania, in 2008.
[] Photo: Ryan Freilino, LifeWaves, LLCAfter being turned away at Fleischmanns door, this reporter e-mailed Rick Kramer, who handles media relations for Dardik, to get more information.
"I can tell you that my understanding is that Fleischmann is doing quite well and that the family is extremely encouraged with the progress made this past summer at LifeWaves," Kramer wrote today. "I dont believe that he is confined to bed or too ill to talk on the phone in fact, he conducted several press interviews during his time in the U.S."
This reporter then telephoned Sheila Fleischmann and again asked to speak to her husband. Freilino took the phone and advised this reporter that it was the wish of the Fleischmann family that this reporter not make further contact with the Fleischmanns.
Freilino declined to answer to this reporter in what capacity he was acting and specifically who in the Fleischmann family had decided, on behalf of Fleischmann, that this reporter cease attempts to contact either Fleischmann.
Freilino also advised this reporter that further attempts to contact either Fleischmann would result in Freilinos calling the local police.
Dardik is a physician, though his New York state <http://newenergytimes.com/v2/sr/companies/Energetics/DardikNYS-Licence-Revocation.pdf>medical license was revoked in 1995 by the state Department of Health. The department found Dardik guilty of professional misconduct and fraud.
According to <http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/Dardik/index.html>Quackwatch, "the revocation proceeding was initiated by Ellen Burstein MacFarlane, a former TV investigative reporter."
The Health Department stated that Dardik had developed a wave energy theory and a treatment program to create wave patterns of behavior designed to optimize the bodys normal health patterns."
The report also stated, "The Petitioner argues that the Respondents inappropriate, unethical, insensitive and unconscionable conduct is consistent with a finding of moral unfitness and that the facts that support the Committees Determination that the Respondent guaranteed a cure, committed fraud, exerted undue influence, exploited patients and failed to maintain adequate records are sufficient to sustain the charge of moral unfitness."
New Energy Times has published stories on Dardik's Energetics Technologies LLC, which claims SuperWaves as its key ingredient to achieve LENR excess heat. In 2004, the company reported a record 2,500 percent excess heat in a one-time LENR experiment, but the firm has never reported either its own repetition or a third-party replication of such a stunning achievement.
The companys Web site implies that its technology "produces an astonishing 25 times more energy output than the energy required to produce it."
Fleischmann is scheduled to go to Rome next week to receive an award at the 15th International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science.
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