The medieval practice of bleeding hung around for centuries because patients sometimes got better. This does not mean that bleeding the patients had any good effect.

A charlatan preying on people who are in dire straights can gain the same credibility bleeding got simply through random odds, and by not publicizing his failures.

He needs a good horsewhipping.
 

The Hell it doesn't, Kris! Why do you think women live longer than men?

wv: hankerti
 

Hahahahahhaha Ralph.
 

Kristopher, this is prolly a case where you should watch the thing first.
 

I know why husbands usually die first. They want to.
Tim
 

Rodge: I'm sure he's a good con artist. He may even believe his own patter.

Still needs a whippin'.

Ralph: The ones that live for damned near forever ain't bleedin' anymore ... they stopped around age 40. In fact, that's why women have menopause, so they don't die in childbirth while they are raising their last sprog.
 

Kristopher, you're a savvy dude. There was nothing to dispute, and nothing being sold. That's how I know you did not watch the show before commenting, and still haven't. Oui?
 

I think that the shrink at the end was probably the most accurate.
 

If people swear they were healed because of their faith in him, the process, or whatever, then that makes him a Faith Healer.

Pure and simple.

Convince the woman with the lung mass otherwise.

Cuzzin Rick
 

How about a faith healing whereby the affliction and cure are not subject to erroneous diagnoses by machine, doctor, nor patient?

Know of an amputee? Then simply ask Issam Memeh or any other alleged faith healer to pray for return of the amputee's limb(s).
 

JFC, I'm a bit gobsmacked by the visceral negative response here to something that people I know in real life view in a positive light. That "faith healings," or alternately the "placebo phenomena" occur are matters of fact not disputed, even if not understood, by science. Having faith in something - even if it's gaia or a rusty nail, aka having a soul - is indicated however. Yeesh.
 

Rodger, I'm with you. In part II when he's explaining things, he sounds very much like Edgar Cayce, and he was no fake.

It's simplest to condemn what we don't understand, that's why the world is flat, don't you know. Now let's hang those bastards Copernicus & Galileo, and get on with life.

Casca
 

Kristopher, I see amputees walking all the time. They are using prosthetics, which is a miracle. Remember, we are also part of God's creation and he uses his creation to work his miracles. My Dad, an anesthesiologist, puts it this way. It used to take a miracle to cure leprosy, now God has given us the ability to work those miracles, (and many others) for him. Those that have eyes to see and all that, you know.

The knee-jerk hostility to anything even remotely religious isn't very attractive.

Just my 2c. (maybe my 2nd or 3rd post in the past 8 or 9 years)
 

Prosthetics aren't miracles, Anonymous. Not in the religious sense of the word. They're products of human reason in the pursuit of a solution to a problem. There's far more spirituality in a single human being engaged in that process than all the religions put together.
 

I am happy that he is not asking for money Rodge.

I just hope he doesn't get too many people killed by unwittingly obstructing them from getting proper treatment.
 

I also withdraw my horsewhip demand, as he is simply exercising first amendment protected rights at this point.
 

I like Edgar Cayce even if he was a little too dualistic for my taste.

One story has it that Edgar and a friend were waiting for an elevator. The doors open, Edgar took one look inside and said "Let's take the stairs." The elevator crashed and all aboard died. His friend asked him why he had not gotten on the car. Edgar said he looked at the passengers and saw that none of them had a future and decided to walk.

There are many levels of reality and I ain't good on any of them.

Laurence
 

Very, very interesting.