john of god

We've all heard of this guy, right? The guy who does magic tricks to deceive people into thinking he's healing them? Well... one of the guys anyway. Turns out he has a nasty habit of sexually abusing people as well. Miracle healer accused of sex abuse by 300+ women hands himself in

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...

This week's edition of "so disgusting you couldn't make it up" comes courtesy of a certain "John of God", who bills himself as a spiritual healer with the ability to cure aids and cancer. I first got alerted to this abusive scum by receiving a spam e-mail from him. I have reproduced the e-mail...

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...

Viewers of the Discovery Channel channels Animal Planet and Discovery Health Channel recieved a double dose of woo earlier tonight(4-15-06) between the hours of 8:00 and 10:00 PM PT. On Animal Planet you could see a Jeff Corwin special entitled Realm of the Yeti. The two-hour program...

Oh my what a load of claptrap. I'm getting a headache, and it's not just from repeatedly banging my head against the wall when ever Gary Schwarz (sp?) opens his mouth and lets the tripe flow out. But I will be brave and suffer through this ordeal. I mean I knew the 'documentary' would be like...

one hour long and not one skeptic presented. They did have a couple of PhDs say how quantum physics might explain his healing powers.:rolleyes: Also a couple of western doctors who said they knew people who were healed. But again no skeptic or opposing views. And no evidence that wasn't...

Mr. Randi, Concerning the John of God farce. Your description of Dr. Oz makes me wonder how he stands before other doctors and if his medical board (What state is it in any way?) is aware of his practices. Apparently, among other things, he approves of a woman with breast cancer visiting this...

Ho, hum, here we go again. My first guess is, charlatan. On second thought...still charlatan. Has John of God won the million dollar prize? No? Charlatan. Haven't we seen this kind of {expletive deleted by nasty forum software censor} before...