From: Walter Watts (wlwatts@cox.net)
Date: Tue Mar 16 2004 - 10:15:48 MST
You asked if we had the same stupidity here in the great USA.
One word.
Benny Hinn
Walter
<BTW, welcome to CoV>
Uisge Beata wrote:
> This morning I read the post from Walter. So I thought being pretty new
> around here and becouse I did not join becouse of the political discusion I
> could probabely try to start a new discusion. Well actualy it is not a new
> discusion it's an old one but been brought up through the fact that some
> dutch commedy star called Sylvia Millecam and a famous dutch "medium"(healer
> trough divine powers)calling herselves Jomanda were involved. The story in
> short is as follows.
>
> In 2000 breastcancer was diagnosed in miss Millecam by a regular docter, the
> cancar was in an easely to treat state so the docter wanted to start
> treating her. She was of course devistated but did not realy belived it so
> she went to a alternative docter with normal medical training and
> alternative(homeopatic) training. Using the alternative methods only, this
> "docter" concluded that it was no cancer but some bacterial infection. Then
> miss millecam also whent to Jomanda the divine healer and to about 8 other
> alternative healers. Most of them told her it was not cancer and treated her
> for a bacterial infaction with homeopathic medicin or with the help of the
> spirrit world, two of them told her that it could have been cancer but they
> new the cure(injection and eating of high concentration of salt). Miss
> millecam belived the alternetive methods worked and that normal medicin
> would only make here more sick so she refused that supported by the
> alternetive people. But ofcourse she died two years after she was diagnosed
> with a little tumor which at that stage could be more easaly cured than a
> common cold(withs is not curable ofcourse but you get my drift)
>
> This all would not bring up as big a discusion weren't it for our national
> health council. They written a big report about this case and now are trying
> to get the alternetive "doctors" and Jomanda procecuted. This brought up a
> big row in which even the minister of health had a part in rightfully saying
> homeopathic medicin was as useful as plain water or maybe even les useful
> becouse of the use of deminaralized water. Half the country whas angry at
> him for saying this.
>
> But the real discusion is ofcourse whose reponsible? The alternative doctors
> saying she had nothing to worry about knowing that scientific methods proved
> other and saying normal medicin would make her sick. Or miss millecam
> herselves in trusting alternative medicin above scientific proven standart
> method???
> I, for my selve am not sure at all about the question if the alternative
> healers are guilty to her death though I think the juge will sentence them
> for jail or fine. What do you think about this?
>
> This thing brought up some shocking other fact at my university a lot(20%)
> of biology, pharmacology and medicin students admited using homeopatic
> medicin themselves, knowing what they are and how living things and
> chemestry works...
> So even pretty inteligent and enlightend people can belive in rubbish. How
> is this in other countries or in you're socialgroup?
>
> U.Beata
>
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