faith healers

I just learned about this "healer" yesterday and was surprised to see how much success he had treating treatment resistant cases. First off, I am very familiar with so-called faith or energy healers and similar pseudoscience, and the absurdity of their claims. This guy got my attention, though...

Just got a leaflet in my mailbox from "Bruno Gröning Circle of Friends". These guys are faith healers following the teachings of Bruno who claim their healings are medically verified. The verifying authority are "The Medical Scientific Group (MWF)". When you google the MWF you find yourself...

Faith healer Benny Hinn recently made these comments: Full: Christian Post In other news, Hinn got back together with his ex-wife: Full: Christian Post Their divorce records were sealed so the details aren't known to the public. Suzanne Hinn: WvWCkFfuNWg

I was wondering if the long deceased cult leader, Jim Jones, was a promoter of ESP, faith healling or other woo-woo stuff. Thanks in advance.

So Oprah is doing a show on John of God...it is a scandal. I googled "John of God eyeball scraping and the first link is to a link to a blog dedicated to stopping JOG and quotes Randi's Flim Flam. Oprah, her O editor, and some Doctor have just been uncritically fawning over him for 30 minutes...

I'm writing from the UK. May I recommend Derren Brown's latest show, shown on British TV on Channel 5 at 9pm last Monday 25th April 2011 for 95 minutes. It was called, 'Miracles for sale' and was about faith healers. I am a big Derren Brown fan and this show was excellent. Look forward to...

Lisa Ling (sister of the girl who was kidnapped in North Korea) has a new show on Oprah's channel. I saw her being interviewed about the show; she said the first episode was about faith healers. I didn't see it and can't find it online but in the interview, see said that she "Witnessed a...

Full: People.com Full: msnbc.com According to Aiden Chase's website: Full: http://www.aidenchase.com

I always perceived this man to be a charlatan. The people who he was supposed to be healing weren't visibly ill. No amputated limbs ever appeared and no hunchbacks ever had their spine straighted out. No blind people could see no deaf could really hear. He contributed nothing of value to...

Have any of you had any success talking to family members that go to see faith healers? My mom, and her husband, went to see a Dr. Nemeh in Ohio and she's convinced of his powers to heal. She's always been "new age" and into strange things (woo). But now she's giving up her money and...

As you might recall Richard Roberts, Oral Roberts' son, was forced out of his position as president of Oral Roberts University with very embarrassing accusations. Well, it appears Roberts has now decided to "cure" cancer, and on television no less where he asks for donations. But he'll have to...

Any skeptics willing to see faith healer WV Grant in the upcoming weeks in Buffalo, New York (June 22 - 26, 2009) or Kernersville, North Carolina? Randi exposing WV Grant: 53yHE9Y1bdA

There is May 2009 exposé on Don Stewart by the The Arizona Republic. You've probably seen Stewart on late night TV offering a green handkerchief with "healing power" or if you've read Randi's The Faith Healers Stewart is mentioned in his chapter on AA Allen. As a result of the paper's reporting...

It seems faith healer Benny Hinn is staying below the press' radar. Yet he's on tour this year and while admission to his miracle crusades are free, the hotels and theology aren't. He has some video ads for the services as well as other promotional items on his website. Anyone here ever been to...

http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_11283875 Not particularly new, but its's interesting that there seems to be a correlation between a government having trouble providing health care to its population, and the promotion of these kinds of "traditional medicine" as a sort of stop-gap. China is...

Kenneth Copeland is a faith healer who worked for and was subsequently trained by Oral Roberts. He was recently asked to provide financial details to the Senate, but has refused. A week ago the county tax assessor has a made ruling on a second jet. Source On the Copeland jet and the cancer...

It looks like a Moscow court cut Grigory Grabovoi's sentence down to eight years. A little background on this: Source However, a few weeks ago: Source Interesting that convictions like this happen in Russia, but meanwhile in the U.S. the public/government can't even look into the finances...

At my dad's nursing home, I've come to know another gentleman there and chat with him most evenings. He isn't a bible thumper by any means, but he was raised in a fairly serious Christian family, and the churches he attented included speaking-in-tongues and faith healing, and occasionally...

Hi, I'm sure you've seen those faith healers on TBN who do what they call "slaying in the spirit". It is where they touch someone on the forehead and they fall over. Well - a few years ago I was at the state fair and saw a hypnotist. He used the exact same motions and techniques (minus any...

OK folks, for those of you who haven't gotten to know me, let me be brief: I'm a born-again skeptic, was never really religious except for a brief period of time years ago (for which i claim temporary insanity), but have for a long time been what i referred to as "spiritual": simply believing in...

Rosemary Altea befriended, Llewella Day, an elderly cancer victim who was Altea's "patient." Llewella died in 2001 and willed the 500+ acre (worth $ 740,000 dollars) family farm to Altea cutting the family out of the will twice. Altea knocked down the farm to build a "healing foundation."...

Via hosted . ap . org /dynamic/stories/O/ ODD_FAITH_HEALER_SCAM?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT May 30, 8:04 PM EDT 'Faith-Healing' Brothers Charged in Scam SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Two brothers claiming to be faith healers were charged with grand theft for allegedly convincing...

It seems to me the paranormal and homeopaths are taking their battle to Youtube where skepticism is less fierce. As a skeptic towards homeopathy and their research, I came across this video on youtube (recently posted) and a related website by a John Benneth and was surprised to finally hear a...

I know Randi has said: http://www.randi.org/jr/120701.html Is the movie good? How is its treatment of faith healing? I tried to find the trailer online, but to no avail.

BBC2 10pm, Monday 7th January 2007. First of a new series examining the work of unorthodox healers, beginning with “Shaman” Peter Aziz who has claimed he can cure people with Cancer and AIDS.;) Has anyone heard of this guy before?

link The odd thing is that it would seem she actualy believed in what she claimed.

Hey there. I'm new here so you all don't know me very well, but I'm pretty straight forward and tend to be very skeptical. If I don't see it for myself, I don't believe it. I'm here mainly to participate and learn more about debunking the 9/11 conspiracy kooks. That said, I've had one...

An interesting article here: http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=932 Although covers a lot of the usual stuff, it's still depressing to know this still goes on

Randi and his investigations of WV Grant and Peter Popoff. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1882562115589761236 or http://tinyurl.com/hm7cf

Did anyone see John Stewart last night (Thursday night.) For his "Moment of Zen" bit at the end of the show he showed some televangelist chasing demons out of people. Normally these guys just lay a hand on the person's head and the person falls down. But this guy took off his coat and began...