The Columbus Dispatch
An alternative health practitioner in Athens County has found herself at the center of a “fake news” controversy involving astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
A British tabloid story that went viral this past week reported that Aldrin passed “complex computer analyses” proving he was truthful when describing an alien sighting from the Apollo 11 command module.
The analyses were said to have been carried out by The Institute of BioAcoustic Biology, whose Facebook page’s website link conntects to Sound Health Alternatives and Sharry Edwards, who claims to be able to use the body’s natural frequencies to heal.
Edwards, who spoke to Dispatch reporter Dean Narciso in 1996 about her technique, said she believes all living organisms emit frequencies that, when combined, form a “sound print” that can be used to diagnose a wide range of human ailments – from broken bones to fractured relationships.
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Edwards told The Dispatch she uses a computer is to separate patients’ voices into their component frequencies, and then she diagnoses a patient’s emotional and physicial wellness based upon the strengths and weaknesses in those frequencies.
Britain’s Daily Star newspaper reported on Apr. 8 that Edwards said tests on Aldrin’s voice patterns revealed the astronaut was sure he saw a UFO even though his logical mind “cannot explain it.”
The story went viral on social media, but Aldrin, 88, has never said he saw a UFO or an extraterrestrial alien during the Apollo 11 mission.
Aldrin did say in a 2014 Reddit chat that he saw a light alongside the Apollo 11 spacecraft, but “it was not an alien.” A NASA spokeswoman said Aldrin likely saw panels that separated as the craft maneuvered to dock with the lunar lander.
According to the Associated Press, Edwards reviewed recordings of Aldrin’s voice from a documentary film on the landing. She said Aldrin was never personally interviewed, and “there were no tests.”
In response to a request from the Live Science website, Edwards sent the website documents containing the analyses of the recordings from Aldrin and other astronauts. Live Science was critical of Edwards’ analyses, writing, “There’s just no reason to believe this company has the ability to discern truth from recordings of people’s voices. While bioacoustics is a real area of scientific inquiry, it simply doesn’t answer questions like ‘Is this person lying?’ Instead, it answers questions about what sounds animals make, how they make them and when they make them.”
In 1996, a physician at Riverside Methodist Hospital was also skeptical of Edwards’ claims, suggesting to The Dispatch that any success Edwards may have achieved with diagnosing and treating disease was due to the placebo effect.
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