Wilhelm Reich is the man whom nearly everyone loves to hate. Reich’s life and research findings thereafter became a target for repeated slander and defamations.' Water, 4:72-81, 2012. A terribly biased US Food and Drug Administration investigation and alarming judicial reaction was triggered by the media assault, resulting in Reich’s death in prison, and the most outrageous episode of government-ordered book burning in American history. These slanders were repeated and amplified in the American press after 1947, after his findings on bioenergetics and claims of a specific life energy, the orgone energy, were publicly announced.

Reich’s writings and research on emotions, human sexuality, bioelectricity and biogenesis originally triggered a massive attack with sexual slander, in the German and Norwegian press in the 1930s lead-up to Hitlerism.

There is no greater example of this than how the biography and work of the late Wilhelm Reich continues to be maliciously distorted and attacked. 'A recent technology-comment article in Nature magazine (Glausiusz 2012) exemplifies a growing problem in the sciences, in the reliance upon unfactual material sourced only to popular literature or to the “skeptic” press and generally written by prejudiced journalists, for evaluations of controversial scientific findings.

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