healing

From the heading of my post, you can see I believe Mr. Norbekov is total woo. He is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbekov Now, has anyone heard of him? Could you please comment? I am trying to equip myself with some good debunking info on this guy. So if anyone has come across any good...

A friend has been telling about Arbah Healing - which I have never heard of before. From the practitioner's website: I can't find any information here or on the web regarding "Arbah Energy". I was hoping someone here may have come across this before, or at least have some comments. I have...

Prayer does not help health patient Actually they even found a negative correlation for patient really being prayed for, which, if I udnerstood the article from CNN correctly, had a highier complication rate. I wish I could ahve a look at the real article...

Has anyone else come across Vortex Healing? Or perhaps its lead man Ric Weinman? Their web site is certainly entertaining, especially the Merlin and ‘research’ sections.

The 5th claim of 2006... I Can stop some types of headache, without the presence and without the knowledge of the person. ========================================================= Dear Ademar, Thank you for submitting a JREF Paranormal Challenge application. We have reviewed your claim...

The first claim of the new year, 2006. Wonderful. As I told U mr. Randy... - U can photograph my energy,.. u can feel it! - some people can see it.... and - Everybody enjoys it!! - Is actual, I can even do something for u... cure sickness, make u change ure life.. - Here is my...

As a Christian, a sceptic and a former Pentecostal in leadership (read my testimony half way down my post in the, ‘who would be more difficult to convert’ (or similarly named?) thread, I am considering a new kind of thorough examination/book of the whole physical healing ‘thing’ and would...

The recent Journal of sCAM (the reading of which has cheered me up no end..) has an article on “Spooky Actions at a Distance”: Physics, Psi, and Distant Healing http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/acm.2005.11.923 (Emphasis mine) :D :D :D These modalities are not concepts...

Dear Sir, My name is Bich Ba Do, President of Taman Bio-Electromagnetic Energy Healing Institute, Inc. I would like to apply for the status of claimant of One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge. A. Personal Information. Male, Born in Vietnam 1942. Settled in USA as refugee. Working as...

Below is a draft for a study on remote healing - "prayer", if you will. Two questions for you all: 1. Are there any methodological flaws? Any ways to make it better and/or more airtight? 2. Would this qualify for the challenge? It isn't about any *personal* supernatural powers, but is about...

My claim is the following: I will place a tape player at one location and I will be at another 2 miles away. (this should ideally take place in a remote area to ensure there is not a second tape player on ultra low volume.) The tester will turn on the tape player on ultra low volume at the...

From 2000.... ============================================ Dear Sirs, This demonstration will consist of the healing of some terminally ill individuals through the divine power invoked by the faith in its existence and its manifestation in the form of a miracle that re[resents the mercy, love...

... how can we trust our physicians to practice medicine ethically? After all, the classical Hippocratic Oath presupposes the existence of "Apollo Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and goddesses": http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/doctors/oath_classical.html

Has anybody heard of, or know anything about this technique? My daughter has a teacher at school, telling her and her classmates how brilliant it is, I thought rather than just dismiss it outright, I would seek the skeptic point of view. Personally it seems a bit sus to me...

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=00000000007,00000001331,0,0,1,0 In Norway, we have a state church and a priest as prime minister. However, if the government decided to fund a project like this, they would never hear the end of it!

I saw documentry segment on tv tonight about this "Papa Joe" and his team of 'Maori Healers'. Okay I thought this would just be some kinda wacko 'touch' healing thing. But no. I tuned in and saw a bunch of huge maori guys (maori guys are often real big - both muscle & fat) jumping on this guys...

According to the Nevada Department of Insurance, these clowns are trying to sell insurance, now. Read through this site. They also provide the text for an Army field manual. Spooky crew. Sounds like another Jim Jones, in its own way. Check 'em out here.

This claim came in on July 16, 2004. ============================================== I will provide oral tablets containing 25mg of sodium chloride, with normal tablet making excipients Dibasic Calcium Phosphate Dehydrate PhEur, MAgnesium Stearate BP, Talc, purified BP. The tablets will be...

If you scrape your hand and it bleeds, it scabs over. And it itches. WHY? Why damnit? Itchiness means that scabs can be scratched at while you're asleep, and they peel off, exposing the raw flesh, causing more bleeding, increasing the possibity of infection, and encouraging the growth of...

This claim came in (from Lubeck, Germany) in August, 2004. ============================================= Dear Mr. Randi, I read and signed the application. The documents on I become you in the original by Post Office send. For the answer I settle 5 Euros. I intend to make the remote...

It's a few days before Xmas 2005, and this just came in... ============================================WHAT I PROPOSE HERE IS A DUPLICATE OF A CHALLENGE I DID BACK IN 1975. IT WAS NEVER PUBLISHED AS THE END RESULT WAS TOO MUCH FOR THE INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER TO HANDLE. IN SHORT MY PROPOSAL...

An ad posted on Craiglist: The first rule of Fight Club is - you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is - you DO NOT talk about Fight Club. ;)

I guees the title says it all... have a look... I came across this looking for an account of a trial with a Magic Rock and a Non-Magic Lump Of Glass, wherein it was shown that both were equally effective at inducing Magical Tingly Feelings in Believers. Can anyone give me the reference please...

This guy's claim came in today, mailed from Belgium, last week. Talk about bad timing. ======================================== Dear Prof. Randi, I already have written you 4-5 times but you never answered. Does the Million Dollar Challenge really exist? Because I'd be pleased to enter the...

I'd just like to know what people here believe about herbal medicine if anything. Supposedly there is proof available for the following claims : Ginger and Galangal root can help deal with travel sickness. St. John's Wort is an effective anti-depressant. Extracts from both Garlic and...

http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=45629 Terry Polevoy on ADAM. ON NOW

Wow. This woman uses her "inner senses" to listen to the "silent" sound of a violin, and uses her "energy field" to "harmonically tune" a violin to make it sound better. Yes, she is basically doing TT on a violin, claiming improvements in sounds. http://www.singing-woods.org/healing.html I...

"Realm of Light" group. After revealing my skeptical nature, I proceeded to ask one of the healers to heal me. I sometimes get a sore back, probably because of the crappy bed I have to sleep in while in Japan. Well....the guy said that it's not my back that needs healing, but my right knee...

How deep meditations & thoughts can be helpful in healing the chronic diseases?? If self hypnosis is helpful for this purpose??

My grandmother's friend rolled into town today and brought with her some interesting toys. My grandmother has bad arthritis and very sore knees. Like most seniors like her, she lives in pain and looks for cures to her ailments. Her friend brought magnet pads and an "energy machine" to help...