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<p>Create biographical page for person listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists (web-verified; red-link batch 7)</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox scientist<br /> | name = Curtis Upton<br /> | fields = Radionics<br /> | known_for = Agricultural radionics and the UKACO device<br /> }}<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Curtis Upton&#039;&#039;&#039; (Curtis P. Upton) was an American engineer and inventor best known as a pioneer of agricultural radionics and a co-founder of the firm UKACO in the late 1940s. He is listed in &#039;&#039;[[The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists]]&#039;&#039;.<br /> <br /> ==Work==<br /> Upton, together with William J. Knuth and Howard Armstrong, formed UKACO, which promoted a method of treating crops for pests using apparatus derived from the radionic instruments of Albert Abrams. In the reported technique a photograph of a field was used as a &quot;witness&quot; and placed with a sample of the agent to be applied on a metal plate wired to the device, which practitioners claimed could act on the distant crops. Upton&#039;s activity is documented in histories of radionics as continuing through the 1950s and 1960s, extending from single plants to whole fields treated via aerial photographs.<br /> <br /> Later proponents of torsion-field and &quot;new energy&quot; concepts have retrospectively cited experiments of this kind — in which the treatment of a photograph is said to transmit an influence to a remote object — as early examples of their ideas. These claims lie outside mainstream physics and biology, which do not recognize radionics or photograph-mediated action at a distance as valid mechanisms.<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> * [http://www.newenergytimes.com/v2/archives/fic/J/JNE2N34.PDF Journal of New Energy reference]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Scientist|Upton Curtis]]<br /> [[Category:Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists]]</div>

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