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INSTITUTE FOR FRONTIER SCIENCE: Form 990EZ, tax year 2013

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Organization
INSTITUTE FOR FRONTIER SCIENCE (EIN 23-2840016)
Tax period
2013-01-01 to 2013-12-31
Filed
2014-11-11
IRS object ID
201433159349201478
Schema version
2013v3.1
Source
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Every field in the e-filed return. Faint text is the IRS element name, for citing.

Return header ReturnHeader

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Primary Exempt Purposescientific and medical research and public education of the findingsPrimaryExemptPurposeTxt

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I.The Subtle Energy Research Project is a fundamental scientific research project to detect and measure the presence of putative subtle energies associated with biofield practitioners, energy healers, the intention to heal, and laying on of hands. We hypothesize that these energies, if present, are not conventional energies, and may require new instrumentation, or that they may be extremely low level electromagnetic energy. In 2013, we investigated an Armenian device, the Bioscope and initiated research on various environmental detectors. Principal investigators are Harry Jabs, M.S., physicist/engineer, and Beverly Rubik, Ph.D., biophysicist. This basic science investigation with other physical targets continues in 2014.$122,662$102,500
II.Project Lightbeam is a clinical research project to investigate if visible light stimulation of diabetic subjects who report dysregulated blood glucose will improve their blood sugar regulation. This project is still being planned at this time and has 3 principal investigators: Martha Howard, M.D., Alice Nixon, MA (of Light and Sound Healing, Inc.), and Beverly Rubik, Ph.D. The project will require IRB (Institutional Review Board) approval for use of human subjects in research. We will be using an FDA-approved medical device for this study. Planning continued in 2013, and we have prepared some materials for IRB approval, including subject questionnaires and other forms, the protocol for working with the subjects, and determined all physiological measurements, including blood sugar, heart rate variability, and blood pressure. We uploaded all materials to an online database platform. No funds were received in 2013, but we still have funding that was contributed in 2012. The study will be conducted in 2014-15.$40,907
III.The Project for Shumei Agriculture is a small pilot research project to study vegetables grown by different agricultural techniques to measure the ultraweak light emitted from them. We completed this project successfully in 2013 and sent a report to the Shumei group, although it was too small a study for publication.
IV.One small research project that was funded by the Weston A. Price Foundation of Washington, D.C in 2012-13. This was a very small pilot study on the consumption of pork sausage to investigate effects on the blood of 3 persons. The study was finalized and a report published in the journal, Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts.$2,400
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Officer Director Trustee Empl OfficerDirectorTrusteeEmplGrp (3 entries)

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Supplemental Information Detail SupplementalInformationDetail (11 entries)

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