| Desiré D. Dubounet | |
| Birth Name: | William Charles Nelson |
| Birth Date: | 1951 6, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Warren, Ohio |
| Citizenship: | USA |
| Alma Mater: | Youngstown State University Southeastern Louisiana University |
| Known For: | Designing and selling Radionics devices |
| Field: | Radionics |
Desiré D. Dubounet (born William Charles Nelson; 19June 1951[1]) is an American alternative medicine inventor, filmmaker and performer currently living in Budapest.[2] [3] Dubounet developed the pseudoscientific Electro Physiological Feedback Xrroid, an energy medicine device that is considered to be dangerous to health and has been described as a scam.[2] [4]
Dubounet developed the pseudoscientific EPFX device in the late 1980s which supposedly claimed could diagnose and eliminate diseases including AIDS and cancer.[2] [5] The EPFX device is described as balancing "bio-energetic" forces; bio-energetic forces do not exist.[4] Some people died after using the EPFX system instead of seeking or continuing medical care.[6]
In 1992 the United States Food and Drug Administration ordered Dubounet to stop claiming that the EPFX could diagnose or cure diseases, but she did not; in 1996 she was indicted on nine counts of felony fraud, though none were in relation to the EPFX.[2] Dubounet has since left the United States.[2] [7] Dubounet is also involved in homeopathic medicine; she received a patent for a process for manufacturing homeopathic "remedies" in 1997.[8] At least 10,000 EPFX devices have been sold in the United States.[9]
Dubounet lives in Budapest,[10] and performs at the nightclub Bohemian Alibi.[11] and produced and starred in the English-Hungarian comedy The Story of F***.[3] [12] Dubounet also directed the erotic comedy Paprika Western.[13] [14]