Read all about it Frequently, the 'medical community' is simply protecting their industry when they restrict medicine from the common person. And frankly, if you wanna cook or kill your baby with an ultrasound, that really should be your problem; the 'medical community' can tell you you're nuts, they can recommend against it, but they shouldn't be allowed to ban you from buying an ultrasound machine. But I have digressed into the everyone-is-responsible-for-their-own-actions land, which is a far, far away place. The real gem in this story is that Tom Cruise is such a maroon he fails to see what a maroon he is with this ultrasound business, and admits it so openly. Ultrasound is a somewhat risky thing for maroonery to be playing with. It can burn you, it can do all sorts of bad things. For cryin' out loud, it sterilizes surgical equipment; imagine what it might do to a baby or its poor little brain. But since Tommy is such a fan of science, let's just leave him to his little science experiments and see what happens, shall we?