Diskussion:Rubens Faria

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Oprah Winfrey has hosted another dangerous health-related program http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Do-You-Believe-in-Miracles_1 -- this time promoting the alleged a Brazilian grade-school dropout whose Web site claims he has "treated, either directly or indirectly, up to 15 million people during the past 40 years." Although his techniques have been appropriately debunked by James Randi http://www.randi.org/jr/021805a.html, Joe Nickell http://www.csicop.org/si/show/john_of_god_healings_by_entities/, and other skeptics, Oprah's viewers were neither given nor directed to this information. "miraculous" healings of João Teixeira de Faria (better known as John of God), Uncritical promotion of "faith healing" is dangerous because it can induce desperate people to waste large sums of money on travel and can delay the onset of effective treatment. Last year, Newsweek published a cover story describing how Oprah has promoted dubious and sometimes dangerous advice from anti-vaccine activist Jennifer McCarthy and several others. [Kosova W, Wingert P. Live your best life ever! Newsweek, May 30, 2009] http://www.newsweek.com/id/200025/output/print Yet Oprah appears to be completely impervious to criticism and clueless about her harmfulness. In a recent discussion on Quackwatch's Healthfraud List, family nurse practitioner Carolyn Ewell made this observation:

"Oprah is an entertainer, and providing entertainment content is what she does. Her sponsors stay with her because she brings in the ratings. This directly affects her bottom line. If she can do some good along the way, I'm sure it makes her feel good. But doing possible harm is probably easily dismissed since it's all just entertainment. "

Quelle: Consumer Health Digest #10-47, November 25, 2010

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