Medical Fraud

Science versus Miracles: Curing Jaundice by Psychic Power

August 24, 2016

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B. Premanand The jaundice patient goes to the tantrik or godman for a cure. After an incantation over the medicine, the patient is administered the medicine. He asks the patient to gargle for a few minutes and then spit it out. When he spits out a yellow liquid, which looks like a bile, the tantrik…
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Science versus Miracles: Psychic Surgery

August 13, 2016

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B. Premanand In the Philippines, psychic surgeons conduct surgery without any instruments and claim to cure patients. One such psychic surgeon came to India in the 1980s and the first surgery was conducted on a minister of Maharashtra State. The surgeon thus acquired much publicity in the news media. When he was confronted by skeptics,…
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