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Crystal healing is a pseudoscientific alternative-medicine practice that uses semiprecious stones and crystals such as quartz, agate, amethyst or opal. Despite the common use of the term "crystal", many popular stones used in crystal healing, such as obsidian, are not technically crystals. Adherents of the practice claim that these have healing ...
The Lightning Process (LP) is a three-day personal training programme developed and trademarked by British osteopath Phil Parker. [1] It makes unsubstantiated claims to be beneficial for various conditions, including ME/CFS, depression and chronic pain.
Crystal healing – belief that crystals have healing properties. Once common among pre-scientific and indigenous peoples, it enjoyed a resurgence in popularity in the 1970s with the New Age movement. There is no scientific evidence that crystal healing has any effect. [180] Cupping therapy is an ancient form of alternative medicine.
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There is no peer-reviewed scientific evidence that crystal healing has any effect beyond acting as a placebo. [331] [332] [333] There is a scientific consensus [334] [335] [336] that currently available food derived from genetically modified crops poses no greater risk to human health than conventional food. [337]
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.
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.