contradicts established science— The claim itself is physically incoherent or contradicted by replication; the underlying hardware may be ordinary electronics.
The tier answers “what did the studies show”; the badge answers “does the mechanism agree with physics.” For this device the two answers differ — no controlled trial has tested the claim, so it is not refuted, yet the proposed mechanism contradicts established physics. The atlas no longer conflates the two.
A layered box of alternating organic and metallic material said to concentrate a universal 'orgone' life-energy. Never tested blind. The 1954 FDA injunction against it was a regulatory action granted BY DEFAULT — not a scientific test. The atlas rule cuts both ways: registration is not efficacy, and an injunction is not a refutation. 'Orgone energy' has no definition in physics.
Origin & lineage
Wilhelm Reich, US (Austrian-American), 1940s–50s.
Claimed mechanism
Alternating organic/metallic layers 'accumulate' a universal orgone life-energy with claimed health effects.
Plausibility
Implausible / contradicts physics — 'orgone energy' has no physical definition; the accumulator was never tested under blinding.
Evidence — grade F
1954 FDA Complaint for Injunction (US District Court, District of Maine; FDCA §§301, 302); Decree of Injunction, 19 Mar 1954 (Judge John D. Clifford Jr.), granted BY DEFAULT after Reich refused to appear ('no court is in a position to evaluate my work'); accumulators were ordered destroyed and the literature withdrawn. A default judgment is a legal fact, not a blind test — so the tier is held at insufficient-evidence, and the badge carries the physics.
The box is an ordinary layered enclosure; the 1954 legal history is a documented fact and is stated as such.
Set aside — claim
'Orgone energy' is undefined in physics and no controlled evidence exists. The injunction is a legal fact, not a scientific refutation — the page states both, and does not dress up a default judgment as evidence.
Regulatory status by jurisdiction
Registration or clearance is a market-access fact, never proof of efficacy.
US — FDA
1954 federal injunction; accumulators ordered destroyed.