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The blessing scam, also called the ghost scam or jewelry scam, is a confidence trick typically perpetrated against elderly women of Chinese origin. The scam originated in China and Hong Kong and victims have fallen to it worldwide including in Chinatowns and overseas Chinese communities. The object of the scam is to persuade the victim to put ...
Peter George Popoff (born July 2, 1946) is a German-born American televangelist, charlatan, [1] debunked clairvoyant, and faith healer.He was exposed in 1986 by James Randi for using a concealed earpiece to receive radio messages from his wife, who gave him the names, addresses, and ailments of audience members during Popoff-led religious services.
Assessing the healslut term, Ana Valens of The Daily Dot wrote that it is "empowering" in a sexual context, but "disparaging" in a gameplay one, adding "it implies two things: Either that a healer is a 'slut' who passively does nothing but heal, or the player is a healer who is a 'slut' for playing healer characters. The message is obvious ...
Get-rich-quick schemes are extremely varied; these include fake franchises, real estate "sure things", get-rich-quick books, wealth-building seminars, self-help gurus, sure-fire inventions, useless products, chain letters, fortune tellers, quack doctors, miracle pharmaceuticals, foreign exchange fraud, Nigerian money scams, fraudulent treasure hunts, and charms and talismans.
[4] [13] [14] [15] According to Krieger, therapeutic touch has roots in ancient healing practices, [16] such as the laying on of hands, although it has no connection with religion or with faith healing. Krieger states that, "in the final analysis, it is the healee (client) who heals himself.
TV personality Derren Brown produced a show on faith healing entitled Miracles for Sale which arguably exposed the art of faith healing as a scam. In this show, Derren trained a scuba diver trainer picked from the general public to be a faith healer and took him to Texas to successfully deliver a faith healing session to a congregation.
ThetaHealing (also Theta Healing) is the registered trademark for a method of meditation created by Vianna Stibal in 1995. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] ThetaHealing claims to change a practitioner's brain wave pattern to the theta pattern , allowing them to explore how " emotional energy " affects their health, and develop "natural intuition".
In 1988, Earl Hautala in a review [3] wrote "Randi applies the scalpel of science to expose the ills of faith healing to the light." He ends his review with: "An eye opener for the naïve, this book provides a crash course in the methods of skeptical inquiry." In the New Scientist, Roy Herbert praised the book in a 1990 review. [4]