RE: Faith healers that claim they can cure cancer.
June 27, 2011 at 3:18 pm
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2011 at 3:45 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(June 25, 2011 at 5:48 am)lilphil1989 Wrote: Yes, there are scam artists. There are also plenty of faith healers who don't have a business and don't charge for their "treatments"
Were it not for the scam artists laying the necessary foundation for snake oils, those who don't charge for providing the potentially deadly disservice might be dissuaded of the mumbo jumbo and become useful human beings who charge for providing an useful service.
I know of a con artist in San Jose who pursuaded an devout buddhist and pancreatic cancer sufferer in San Jose to desist from her "unbalanced" chemotherapy treatment and rely insist on his "balanced adjustment" of her body which consist of whole body messages by messeurs of unknown provinence, drinking water in which a magic plastic wand has been dipped, and eating meals consisting of cottage cheese mixed in a blender with bananas and certain other nuts.
BTW, the magic plastic wand has been certified as effective in "clearing the blood" by several Ph.Ds whose degrees were appearently granted by a certain "wellness institute" which I can not find online. The paper touting the virtues of the magic wand, supposedly published in certain "Journal of wellness science", contains out-of-focus pictures of red blood cells that was supposedly the "unbalanced blood" as might be present before the dipping of the magic blue plastic, and well focused pictures of redblood cells that was suppose to be blood that has been "balanced" by the magic wand. I never knew until then how much the focus function on a microscope can improve the quality of the blood cells it is looking at.
The con artist in question was in fact educated. He was a trained electrical engineer from abroad. Appearently not satisfied with the living he might make with his real credentials in the silicon valley, he transformed himself overnight to a "body adjustment master", and actually uses his electrical engineer credentials to overawe the gullible about the "scientfic basis" of his therapy. His patient pool consists of some groupies whose devotion to him actually makes one's skin crawl. One claims she could not take an trips of any length without this "therapist" first "adjusting" her body, and lemented she had to put off a long planned overseas trip to visit a relative because this "therapist" was not on-hand to provide the adjustment prior to the date of the departure.
