It does make me wonder (if this is true) what these frequencies would do to a person since we are mostly salt water...


I think it might be similar to the V-MADS:


http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/v-mads.htm


Edited to add:
I wonder if the scientist in question was curious about what V-MADS might do to cancerous tumors and stumbled upon this. Let's hope the "salt water" wasn't someone's eyeball.