Kuznetsov's Team In the late 1980s, I was working on a database on alternative, folk and other unconventional methods of healing. That was when I first met Kuznetsov�s team. The core group was made up of people with very different backgrounds many far from medicine at all, there were also a few medical doctors there, working part time. I'd been introduced to the professor of endocrinology Vladimir Snegirev who came one day to the office to protest against the method because his diabetic patients were quitting insulin. However, after Dr. Snegirev investigated a number of cases, he was so convinced that he joined Kuznetsov's team, too. "What the Kuznetsov�s people are saying about the method is awful,� complained he to me, "The medical illiteracy of theirs is not even funny. But when you look at the results, at all the hundreds who are getting so much relief, all you can do is set aside your medical literacy and work hard to promote the method." What he meant by illiteracy was their statement the Applicator cures all, but we both heard a few of the group's other favorite clauses, or rather incantations, like: "All the filth of your disease has to drip out of your body through the needles," "The needles connect you with energy channels of the Universe," "The needles are antennas to receive the healing commands from the Cosmos," etc. Or was it an intuitive approach to imply Guided Imagery and Faith Healing? In time I met Mr. Kuznetsov personally. In his 80s, he looked incredibly robust and merrily aggressive, you could never tell that two decades go he was practically handicapped. Most of all, I had dealings with Valeri Punin, an engineer and the engineer in the team. I also met a neurologist, a physician, and nurses who worked for the team and everybody told me approximately the same story of disbelief and conviction. They let me look through some files consisting mostly of people's letters written to Ivan Kuznetsov containing success stories. Nobody among the stuff bothered analyzing the invaluable information concealed dormant in these files.