TIL that, Dr. Wilhelm Reich claimed orgasms prevented mental illness and he fought droughts and UFOs with giant energy guns. In the 1950s, the government called him a fraud, burned his books, and busted up his lab in Rangeley.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/17/wilhelm-reich-the-strange-prescient-sexologist-who-sought-to-set-us-free
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