New Age Health Care - Way of Life Literature

with charismatic “healings,” it is not uncommon for
people in the alternative health care field to testify that
they have been healed of a certain disease that was never
properly diagnosed. Second, the claimed cure must result
from the therapy. Other factors could have been at work.
Several years ago I saw an advertisement for a tonic
product that guaranteed weight loss. The patient was
instructed to take the tonic in the evening and not to eat
anything within a few hours of going to bed. The fact is
that the resultant weight loss could be achieved from the
prescribed fasting without the assistance of the
accompanying tonic! Third, the disease must be actually
cured rather than in remission or some such thing.
Fourth, the patient must be alive! Many of Pentecostal
healer William Branham’s patients died after being
proclaimed healed, and the same thing has happened to
many of those who have been “healed” through
alternative health care. (See our book The Pentecostal-
Charismatic Movements for documentation.) For
example, Stanislaw Burzynski offered a cure for cancer
called “antineoplastons,” that was supposed to
“normalize” cancer cells. In 1988, Sally Jesse Raphael
featured on her television show four patients of
Burzynski that had supposedly been healed. Four years
later, Inside Edition reported that two of the four had died
and a third had a recurrence of the cancer. Further,
another woman testified “that her husband and five
others from the same city had sought treatment after
learning about Burzynski from a television broadcast--
and that all had died of their disease” (Stephen Barrett,
Questionable Cancer Therapies).
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