Desiré D. Dubounet (born William Charles Nelson; 19June 1951) is an American alternative medicine inventor, filmmaker and performer currently living in

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. Dubounet developed the pseudoscientific

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, an

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device that is considered to be dangerous to health and has been described as a

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Biography

Dubounet developed the pseudoscientific EPFX device in the late 1980s which supposedly claimed could diagnose and eliminate

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s including

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and

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. The EPFX device is described as balancing "bio-energetic" forces; bio-energetic forces do not exist. Some people died after using the EPFX system instead of seeking or continuing

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. In 1992 the

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ordered Dubounet to stop claiming that the EPFX could diagnose or cure diseases, but she did not; in 1996 she was indicted on nine counts of felony

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, though none were in relation to the EPFX. Dubounet has since left the

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. Dubounet is also involved in

homeopathic medicine Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine. It was conceived in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann. Its practitioners, called homeopaths or homeopathic physicians, believe that a substance th ...

; she received a patent for a process for manufacturing homeopathic "remedies" in 1997. At least 10,000 EPFX devices have been sold in the United States. Dubounet lives in

, and performs at the nightclub Bohemian Alibi. and produced and starred in the English-Hungarian comedy ''The Story of F***''. Dubounet also directed the erotic comedy ''Paprika Western''.

References

External links

Archived website

Official site
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