Sadly, Samaritan Ministries continues its course of promoting quackery, New Age “medicine” that is dangerous to one’s physical health and the Christian’s relationship with God, and unbiblical falsehood in its newsletter.
The quack Gary Taubes is promoted in the October 2017 issue of
Samaritan. What are we supposed to believe? “Obesity isn’t caused by
overeating[.] . . . Obesity doesn’t cause diabetes and heart disease. . .
. The fats in our diet aren’t a problem (pg. 9). People should watch
against dangerous foods like even “a forkful of rice” and instead be
“eating fat-rich foods” (pg. 15). Such statements are false quackery, and Gary Taubes is a quack promoting misinformation.
Samaritan. What are we supposed to believe? “Obesity isn’t caused by
overeating[.] . . . Obesity doesn’t cause diabetes and heart disease. . .
. The fats in our diet aren’t a problem (pg. 9). People should watch
against dangerous foods like even “a forkful of rice” and instead be
“eating fat-rich foods” (pg. 15). Such statements are false quackery, and Gary Taubes is a quack promoting misinformation.
In the February 2018 issue, one finds out that out from quack “doctor” Bruce Fife that “Coconut oil is now being used to treat everything from
athlete’s foot to AIDS and common colds to Crohn’s disease” (pg. 12).
One would be amazed, by reviewing past issues of the Samaritan
Ministries newsletter, just how easy it allegedly is to cure
AIDS–practically every quack remedy does it. Furthermore, putting
coconut oil on your skin will “promote weight loss; help protect against
heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, and many other degenerative
diseases . . . strengthen the immune system; and improve digestion”
(pg. 12). So if one does not have the quack remedies from previous
issues available that cure everything, just put some coconut oil on your
skin and you will become slim, trim, and cancer free. (Furthermore,
the article does not even have the disclaimer that everyone ignores
about this nonsense not being medical advice.)
athlete’s foot to AIDS and common colds to Crohn’s disease” (pg. 12).
One would be amazed, by reviewing past issues of the Samaritan
Ministries newsletter, just how easy it allegedly is to cure
AIDS–practically every quack remedy does it. Furthermore, putting
coconut oil on your skin will “promote weight loss; help protect against
heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, and many other degenerative
diseases . . . strengthen the immune system; and improve digestion”
(pg. 12). So if one does not have the quack remedies from previous
issues available that cure everything, just put some coconut oil on your
skin and you will become slim, trim, and cancer free. (Furthermore,
the article does not even have the disclaimer that everyone ignores
about this nonsense not being medical advice.)
In the June 2018 issue, the dangerous quack David Brownstein is promoted again, promoting the gross inaccuracy that “over 95 percent of patients are suffering from iodine deficiency (pg. 10). He says MSG is a “toxin” (pg. 11), although it really is a perfectly normal part of whole wheat bread that is not bad for you unless you are part of the 1% of the population with celiac disease, that one should eat lots of butter (pg. 11) and other foods that cause heart disease, and so on.
The September 2018 issue of Samaritan claims that skin cancer can be cured by eating a diet of 70-80% fat and 15-20% proteins (pgs. 4-5). Eating such a diet will cure skin cancer about as often as howling at the full moon, and people with skin cancer will die and leave behind orphans and widows if they believe such things. Furthermore, one must eat more salt (pg. 7), perhaps in order to die of heart disease instead of the uncured skin cancer.
The October 2018 promotes the ultimate in health and New Age quackery, homeopathy. Drinking occult water–for that is what homeopathic “medicines” are, as there is not even a single molecule of anything other than water in a 30C homeopathic “remedy”–is alleged to prevent and cure influenza, vomiting, high temperature, etc.
The Samaritan Ministries newsletter is full of gross medical misinformation, New Age quackery, and simple nonsense. Anyone who follows its recommendations is likely to die earlier than he would have otherwise and suffer a lower quality of life from uncured disease, both of which are elements of the righteous judgment of God on those who reject Him for the New Age.
Note: After writing the post above I received the November 2018 issue of the Samaritan newsletter, which gave the fantastically bad advice that one should eat lots of saturated fat instead of healthy things like grains. Why? “it helps cell walls,” so that “you [don’t] end up with overly delicate skin cell walls, which makes skin more prone to sun damage” (Pg. 10). Of course, anyone who has remembers even high school biology knows that people and animals do not have cell walls–only plants do. People have cell membranes. Oops.
I appreciate this site, but why do you have this obsession with promoting the AMA and the cancer industry, which is nothing but a huge money-making machine? Are you being paid to put out this propaganda for the pharmaceutical industry? I can hardly believe that you actually believe this stuff and are actually doing it for any other reason than you are getting paid to promote this industry.
Dear Anonymous,
If you want to convince people that the post above is fantastic and unbelievable, evidence of bribery by the thousands of people with conflicting interests who are AMA members who somehow get together to send me checks, please explain the following. It will help people see how credible your accusation of nefarious deeds on my part is.
This post exposed (for example) the occult and quack practice of homeopathy. A 30C homeopathic "treatment" has not even a single molecule of anything in it but water–one would have to drink more than the Pacific Ocean to get a single molecule of anything other than water. Please explain how:
1.) Drinking water from the tap, or drinking distilled water, can cure all the diseases Samaritan claims it can cure.
2.) If drinking tap water does not cure all these diseases, why drinking water in a homeopathic bottle can cure diseases.
3.) Why Christians should be involved in the occult, or why homeopathy is really not occult.
4.) Why it is so obvious that someone who denies that drinking occult water cures all kinds of diseases is denying something so evidently true that he must be receiving bribes from the AMA, rather than showing love for God and man by trying to prevent God from being dishonored and people from dying from such occult and quack garbage.
Explaining items #1-4 above will greatly help you demonstrate how the truth is not that you are rejecting the Biblical dominion mandate to do science (Genesis 1:26-28), but that I am getting bribed to keep people from buying that special occult water that cures all kinds of disease.
By the way, with the insider information that you have about the Conspiracy with the AMA, could you please let their higher ups know that they must have my wrong address? The checks aren't coming, and I have been waiting and waiting and waiting.
Thanks.
Mr. KB, I fully agree with a few of the things on your site, but disagree with probably most. However, I do appreciate that you allow comments from even people who disagree with you.
I don't know much what Samaritan Ministries is. From the approximate minute and a half I took to explore them, they appear to be an alternative medicine organization. I have noticed that you seem to have a great disdain for anything natural and for any philosophies that think "outside of the box" of the AMA when it comes to health. Am I wrong in thinking this? Or do you just have a disagreement with this Samaritan Ministries organization in particular? Perhaps I misunderstood your stance.
However, anyone who has spent more then 5 minutes of research and is older than grade school realizes that the cancer industry is a huge money-making endeavor composed of such groups as the AMA and the pharmaceutical industry. Real solutions to cancer are often mocked and disregarded as "conspiracy theory," while the cancer industry rakes in huge profits every year, with no real cures in site.
Again, maybe your beef is against this particular organization. But from snippets I've read on your site, you at first glance appear to have a mocking attitude towards legitimate alternative medicine and a naive trust in traditional American medicine, as espoused by the AMA. Please forgive me if I have misunderstood your position. Can you elaborate?
Dear Anonymous,
If you are the same anonymous from above, could you please answer my questions before asking more?
Also, when you speak of real cures, how do you know they work–is it by double-blind, placebo controlled trials, like for real medicine?
Thanks.