Dr. Becker’s theories emphasized the importance of biolectricity in understanding medicine and biology. Any success that he might enjoy would necessarily come at the expense of the paradigm of solution biochemistry, which was the dominant biological viewpoint at the time he began his work. Biochemists were therefore prone to attack Dr. Becker at scientific meetings, and he worked out strategies for dealing with them which he passed on to me. For example, at a meeting Dr. Becker described some research involving application of weak electrical currents to tissue and the resulting cellular changes that he concluded were caused by the current. When he finished his presentation Dr. Becker was asked about the composition of the metal wire that was used to make physical contact with the tissue, and he replied that he used silver. At that point the questioner began a critical tirade in which he claimed that there were numerous reasons to indicate that silver was the absolute worst choice, and that all the observations made by Dr. Becker were artifacts that were caused by biochemical reactions of silver ions that dissolved from the wire, and had nothing to do with the exceedingly weak current that was being passed through the tissue using the silver wire. The questioner took almost 5 minutes to make his case that Dr. Becker’s observations were spurious, after which a hush fell over the auditorium as Dr. Becker stood up to reply. “What metal should I have used?” he asked. “Platinum, because platinum does not dissolve when placed in contact with tissue,” was the reply. “Well,” said Dr. Becker, “I repeated the experiments using platinum and the results were exactly the same.”