{"id":241,"date":"2011-06-22T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2011\/06\/22\/the-faith-healers-who-claim-they-can-cure-cancer\/"},"modified":"2011-06-22T21:17:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T21:17:00","slug":"the-faith-healers-who-claim-they-can-cure-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2011\/06\/22\/the-faith-healers-who-claim-they-can-cure-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"The faith healers who claim they can cure cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Anna Adams and Meirion Jones<br \/>BBC Newsnight website<\/p>\n<p>A group of faith healers who claim they have miracle cures for cancer and HIV have been condemned as &#8220;irresponsible, even criminal&#8221; by a professor of complementary medicine, following a BBC Newsnight investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The group of healers, collectively known as ThetaHealing, claim that their technique &#8211; which focuses on thought and prayer &#8211; can teach people to use their natural intuition and &#8220;brain wave cycle&#8221; to &#8220;create instantaneous physical and emotional healing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ThetaHealing have about 600 practitioners in the UK who charge up to \u00a3100 per session.<\/p>\n<p>But the healers&#8217; claims have been called &#8220;criminal&#8221; and &#8220;not supported by any kind of evidence&#8221; by Edzard Ernst, Professor of Complementary Medicine at the University of Exeter, whose unit not only carry out their own studies but also assess those done by other researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Continues <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/newsnight\/9519657.stm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Anna Adams and Meirion JonesBBC Newsnight website A group of faith healers who claim they have miracle cures for cancer and HIV have been condemned as &#8220;irresponsible, even criminal&#8221; by a professor of complementary medicine, following a BBC Newsnight investigation. The group of healers, collectively known as ThetaHealing, claim that their technique &#8211; which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}