SPQR
Darwin's Dachshund
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Viewers of the Discovery Channel channels Animal Planet and Discovery Health Channel recieved a double dose of woo earlier tonight(4-15-06) between the hours of 8:00 and 10:00 PM PT.
On Animal Planet you could see a Jeff Corwin special entitled Realm of the Yeti. The two-hour program chronicled Corwin's trek to Nepal in search of new species of all types, not just the Yeti. The expedition did actually discover a few new species of frog and Corwin was skeptical enough, so the two hours were not a total loss. I wouldn't want to keep anyone in suspense so I'll say, the Yeti was not found.
An hour of my life I would like back is the one spent watching the Discovery Health Channel special John of God: Miracle Man. Despite the usual graphic nature of Health Channel programming, I have never been more disgusted watching any other progam on that channel.
The entire show provided absolutely no scientific evidence of anything miraculous going on inside the "casa" of John of God. All that I saw were simple carnival tricks, such as the famous "forsips up the nose," and enough anecdotal evidence to fill an oil tanker.
The hour long program followed five people, three were part of married couples so actually eight people, who travelled to Brazil to be "healed" by JoG. The only people who showed any improvement were a woman confined to wheelchair due to a spinal injury and a woman suffering from persistant neck tumors. The paralyzed woman, who had been told she would never walk again, did show the ability to walk as far as 100 feet. She attributed this "miracle" to JoG, even though she started rehabilitation before she came to Brazil. The second woman's story is so depressing and infuriating that it deserves its own paragraph.
This woman came to JoG with her husband because she had cancerous tumors in her neck that could have proven to be fatal. After a few days of "treatment", or weeks the time frame was unclear, such as "invisible" surgery in which the woman and her husband sat in a room with a bunch of other people listening to JoG's voice telling them that they were receiving healing surgery for five minutes, her condition began to worsen. Miraculously, the spirits which are said to inhabit JoG and allow him to heal instructed JoG to tell the woman to seek "conventional" treatments in a hospital in the capitol city of Brazil!!!!!!!
The woman travelled to the hospital and recieved chemotherapy and the other usual cancer treatments.
Once the woman and her husband returned home, she went to her usual docter to undergo tests for her cancer and miraculously, the cancer was gone! The woman and her husband attributed this joyous news to JoG because he had told her to seek "conventional" treatment!
I actually said out loud after hearing this, "You've got to be f**king kidding me!"
The whole hour was basically an advertsiment for JoG with such "experts" as the esteemed Dr. Gary Schwartz vouching for JoG's authenticity. The entire display made me sick.
On Animal Planet you could see a Jeff Corwin special entitled Realm of the Yeti. The two-hour program chronicled Corwin's trek to Nepal in search of new species of all types, not just the Yeti. The expedition did actually discover a few new species of frog and Corwin was skeptical enough, so the two hours were not a total loss. I wouldn't want to keep anyone in suspense so I'll say, the Yeti was not found.
An hour of my life I would like back is the one spent watching the Discovery Health Channel special John of God: Miracle Man. Despite the usual graphic nature of Health Channel programming, I have never been more disgusted watching any other progam on that channel.
The entire show provided absolutely no scientific evidence of anything miraculous going on inside the "casa" of John of God. All that I saw were simple carnival tricks, such as the famous "forsips up the nose," and enough anecdotal evidence to fill an oil tanker.
The hour long program followed five people, three were part of married couples so actually eight people, who travelled to Brazil to be "healed" by JoG. The only people who showed any improvement were a woman confined to wheelchair due to a spinal injury and a woman suffering from persistant neck tumors. The paralyzed woman, who had been told she would never walk again, did show the ability to walk as far as 100 feet. She attributed this "miracle" to JoG, even though she started rehabilitation before she came to Brazil. The second woman's story is so depressing and infuriating that it deserves its own paragraph.
This woman came to JoG with her husband because she had cancerous tumors in her neck that could have proven to be fatal. After a few days of "treatment", or weeks the time frame was unclear, such as "invisible" surgery in which the woman and her husband sat in a room with a bunch of other people listening to JoG's voice telling them that they were receiving healing surgery for five minutes, her condition began to worsen. Miraculously, the spirits which are said to inhabit JoG and allow him to heal instructed JoG to tell the woman to seek "conventional" treatments in a hospital in the capitol city of Brazil!!!!!!!
The woman travelled to the hospital and recieved chemotherapy and the other usual cancer treatments.Once the woman and her husband returned home, she went to her usual docter to undergo tests for her cancer and miraculously, the cancer was gone! The woman and her husband attributed this joyous news to JoG because he had told her to seek "conventional" treatment!
I actually said out loud after hearing this, "You've got to be f**king kidding me!" The whole hour was basically an advertsiment for JoG with such "experts" as the esteemed Dr. Gary Schwartz vouching for JoG's authenticity. The entire display made me sick.
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