Though the Food and Drug Administration investigated Reich for years, their own records show that no claim was ever made by any user of the orgone accumulator that they had been defrauded.

Scientists mark 50th anniversary of Wilhelm Reich's death with exhibition on the man and his work, which focused on a sexual energy-health link.

RANGELEY – It was 50 years ago that physician-scientist Wilhelm Reich, best known for his discovery of a purported cosmic life force associated with sexual orgasm, died in federal prison, his ...

The short answer is that Reich was enjoined from manufacturing and selling his orgone accumulators, violated that injunction and was sentenced to prison.

The former home of psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich is now a museum containing displays of the iconoclastic doctors many interests, including the Cloudbuster and the Orgone Energy Accumulator.

Wilhelm Reich and his "Orgone Accumulator" — a device that was baselessly claimed to improve health by collecting invisible particles. Photo by Gulpen and Ludwig Gutmann / via Wikimedia Commons ...

The Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich was so convinced of the curative properties of orgone (a “cosmic-energy” life force he “discovered” and named), that he developed a device known as ...

The late physician-scientist Wilhelm Reich is pictured at his laboratory in Rangeley, Maine. The European-born inventor of the orgone energy accumulator died 50 years ago and will be honored at ...

Because of his belief in orgone, an imagined form of energy, Reich is now a figure of fun. (Orgasmatron is Woody Allen’s name, in Sleeper, for a parody of Reich’s orgone accumulator, a ...