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Every fact in this atlas carries a status, and counted by type, Frequencies argues with itself more than any other: 85.7 percent of its recorded facts are debated or debunked, against an atlas wide baseline of well under one percent.

Nine Tones, One Modern Claim

The type is entirely the Solfeggio frequencies, nine tones marketed together as an ancient scale. The claim is modern, not ancient: the American naturopath Dr. Joseph Puleo said in the 1990s that he derived the original six, 396 Hz through 852 Hz, numerologically from a table of Bible verse numbers, and Dr. Leonard Horowitz popularised the set soon after in his 1998 book. Three more tones, 174 Hz, 285 Hz, and 963 Hz, were folded in later by other authors, without the numerological derivation claimed for the first six.

Debunked on Every Axis the Atlas Tracks

For each of the nine tones the atlas records the same shape of finding: its claimed origin period is debunked, its claimed name origin is debunked, and its claimed healing use, pain relief, tissue repair, liberating fear, is contested and debunked, several claims to a tone. No historical source documents any of the nine as an ancient musical or liturgical pitch, and the healing claims made for them belong to alternative wellness literature rather than to acoustic or medical science. Eighty six percent debated or debunked is not a gap in the atlas's research; on this type, it is the finding.

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• FrequenciesThe type itself, 85.7 percent debated or debunked, the atlas's highest
• 396 HzThe first of Puleo's original six
• 852 HzThe sixth and last of Puleo's original six
• 174 HzOne of the three later additions, folded in without the numerological derivation claimed for the first six
• 285 HzOne of the three later additions, folded in without the numerological derivation claimed for the first six
• 963 HzOne of the three later additions, folded in without the numerological derivation claimed for the first six