faith healing

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...

Louisiana’s Latest Anti-Scientific Folly, on Video More at the link including videos. So lets review: dragons are real creatures, people saw dinosaurs and not so long ago and faith healers and witch doctors are scientists. Or at least it is premature to say they aren't. Got it?

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8532995/man-dies-visiting-retreat-to-cure-diabetes

This seems to be a different kind of faith healing case from India. I find it hard to believe. He says he has the photographs w/ negatives of the white light entering his body which rose from the holy sikh scripture book during a sikh prayer session which has cured his cancer during his visit...

www.thegreatseparation.com/newsfront/2004/.../a_buddhists_con.ht...Cached - Similar I swear why dont these thing ever happen in a first world country

From the Quackwatch newsletter: Well done, Oregon lawmakers.

Derren Brown has a UK Channel 4 programme on faith healing on the 25 April : http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/04/new-derren-brown-tv-special/ which looks as though it will be interesting. Brown trains an ordinary member of the public as a faith healer and sends him to Texas to help the...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12878811

James Randi gets a mention in this report and Peter Popoff compares himself to Jesus: Full article and video of this report: KABC

From The Oregonian: More: http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/03/bill_ending_faith_healing_exce.html

Has anybody from the UK heard of something called "Healing on the Streets". I recently got a church news letter describing some of the testamonials from people who have been healed and there seemed to be a common thread. They mentioned something about their legs being different lengths and then...

I'm wondering what everyone thinks of this? A couple was soliciting on web sites, ebay and elsewhere to collect money for an alternative treatment for the wife's cancer. I'd post the link but I am not allowed to, however, it's on the front page of reddit. maybe someone can hit the page and...

Anyone come across these before? Are there any places that contain a quick and easy-to-access rebuttal? http://www.healingcancernaturally.com/spirituality-cancer-healing.html#liver_cancer_prayer_healing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88WX7nnyXcU...

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...

Hi Forum, In a discussion with a friend at work, the subject of 'Faith Healing' came up when he mentioned that he'd visited a Psychic Healer who goes by the name of Tareth (previously, Geoff Boltwood). You can visit his webpage by googling 'Tareth' and going to the first link (apparently I...

Seems that seeing a faith healer is a sign that someone is unlikely to be adherent to their conventional medical therapy, jeopardising their chances of survival. http://news.ulster.ac.uk/releases/2009/4596.html Makes sense; Those who believe in woo are likelier to shun conventional meds.

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...

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Well, I'm glad she's getting a trip to Rome, anyway, but I think her mother is just plain mean making her go see the Pope instead of getting a pet hamster: http://www.eagletribune.com/punews/local_story_070233524.html

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...

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...

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/prayer_pr.html I was surfing the net and I put Faith healing is bogus and this what what turned up. Does anyone in here know anything about this experiment? It sounds like total woo woo crap to me.

How many times do we have to be sickened by this sort of "parental" behaviour? http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gy_FocuLcPyslOqVeaOFan8yo7eQD8VLUSO01 I truly hope this couple is convicted of child abuse, and their other children are taken away from them.

Let's say there was a faith healing event 2 hours from where I live. I can't pull a secret agent like James Randi did with Peter Popoff - don't have the expensive equipment. What should I do to expose or at least to have a little fun at this event? ^.-

by Patrick Crewdson - The Dominion Post Christians are offering to cure sick people through prayer at "healing rooms" modelled on doctors' surgeries. Visitors to the rooms – established at churches in Wellington and Auckland, with another planned for Dunedin – receive attention from...

This is just an absolute hoot. ...and if you didn't catch the reference, you're obviously not a WWE/ECW fan...

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...

A Brazilian faith healer and used-car salesman who claims to cure cancer, Aids and blindness by channelling "spirit doctors" is expected to attract thousands of Kiwi followers at a four- day event in Lower Hutt this week. For the rest of the article, see...