Dr. Oz Is A Quack? Say It Ain’t So!

Ok, so I already knew he was a quack. However, he has taken it to a new level.

Dr. Issam Nemeh, the local doctor who holds faith healing services at Catholic churches, has ardent supporters as well as skeptical detractors.

He can count two well-known doctors as supporters.

Cleveland Clinic Wellness chief Dr. Michael Roizen and TV doc Mehmet Oz say they're amazed at several cases in which patients appear to have been healed after Nemeh treated them. Roizen and Oz collaborate on the "You" self-help books, such as "You on a Diet."

Nemeh and two patients will be featured on an upcoming Dr. Oz television show, currently scheduled for February. The show was taped in December.

So a quack is giving air time to a fraud. Unheard of! Maybe Dr. Oz and Dr. Roizen can collaborate on a new book called “You, dead after entrusting yourself to a faith-healer.”

Faith Healing To Be Regulated In Malaysia

Faith healing is not just a problem in the western world. The problems that we have with homeopathy and the Bible believers are echoed across the world, it really just depends on what book of nonsense is being used to "heal" a person with. In Malaysia the book of nonsense is the Qur'an, but the trappings and rituals are still the same. Homeopathy, exorcisms, and general faith healing is undoubtedly in wide use.

So when you hear of the government starting to crack down on these purveyors of perjury, you would assume that it would be a good thing.

Dr. Ramli Abdul Ghani, head of Traditional and Complementary Medicine at Malaysia’s Health Ministry, said that people use it, and they feel the need to regulate the practices to prevent abuse and ensure that the practitioners are qualified. The new law is to be called “The Traditional and Complementary Medicine Bill”, and is scheduled for review in parliament next year.

The bill also covers issues concerning acupuncture and homeopathy, and requires over 11,000 practitioners to apply for a license from the ministry. The Islamic Development Department will draw up guidelines to be followed by Muslim faith healers. This is to avoid a prevalent trend of fake practitioners victimizing innocent people.

Isn't that lovely. Not only are they going to regulate it, but they are going to put the government stamp of approval on these archaic practices. Does this sound familiar to anyone who lives in the UK? Faith healers in the UK have the backing of the crown, which gives some sort of credence to the ridiculous claims of homeopaths.

If good Dr. Ghani was truly interested in the health and welfare of the people of Malaysia, then he would recommend that faith healing, in all of its forms, be banned. There is no scientific evidence that homeopathy works. Just because you have 11,000 practitioners of nonsense does not make it viable or effective. I would like to add that I lump homeopathy, acupuncture, and exorcisms under the heading of "faith healing". It's all faith-based "medicine".

As for avoiding the trend of fake practitioners victimizing innocent people, that's what all practitioners are and do. They are all fake and they are all victimizing the public. Anytime you deny someone proven medicine and allow them to take homeopathic "remedies", then you are harming people.

Again, faith healing is fake. It has never worked and it never will.

Faith-Healing Catholic Insanity

A priest in Australia tried to heal a mentally handicapped girl by laying her out on the alter and commanding her to walk. I have this image of some addled old man standing over some screaming girl going "Walk, damn you! Walk!" There were some very interesting observations made by Monsignor O'Loughlin, though.

Monsignor O'Loughlin said Westerners had a more logical outlook and tended to turn to the spiritual when they could not understand concepts in other ways.

You mean to tell me that people turn to the supernatural when they don't understand how something actually works? No shit.

However, as funny as this may seem, there is a part of this story that angered me a great deal.

"Then the priest just left her there and went back to the microphone and the wailing went on for at least 15 minutes."

The people in the church let this mentally handicapped girl lay on the alter and scream for 15 minutes? What kind of sick bastards are they? Did they get some sort of sick pleasure out of having this girls screams fill the church? I am pretty sure I would have knocked this old man down and taken the girl out of the church. But I wouldn't be bat-shit crazy enough to have my child in a church, especially a catholic church.

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The last guy was doing it wrong. Here is a guy in Kentucky that is healing people in his church all the time. Someone call the hospitals and let them know that they can close their doors. They are not needed now that we have a "real" faith healer.

He says faith healing was like a "calling within a calling." As a young priest in 1972, Father McAlear was asked to pray over a very ill woman in Buffalo, NY. Her family begged the priest to actually heal her.

Father McAlear recalls, "I gave her a blessing, I touched her head, and darn if she wasn't healed -- instantaneously, miraculously in front of my eyes."

Instantaneous healing? That is awesome. It would be even better if it weren't a total load of shit. This is a great example of throwing out random prayers over huge amounts of people and when, by coincidence, a person gets better,then it must have been Gawd.

It is interesting that these people never give specifics on these supposed healings.

It would be an exercise in futility to attempt any kind of statistical analysis or investigation of father McAlear's results. It is quite literally a matter of faith. You either believe it or you don't.

No, it isn't a matter of faith. It is either a fact or it is not. It is either true, or it is not. It is either a lie, or it is not. Guess which way I am leaning.