Marvin Exposes A "Psychic Surgeon"
Marvin Zindler went after a psychic cancer healer yesterday:
A Houston woman in search of a miracle says she stumbled onto a scam. A lot of desperate people are looking for miracle cures. And, boy, there were a lot of folks flocking to a so-called "psychic surgeon."
A woman I'll call Jane Doe because she doesn't want to be identified told me she wants to expose a so-called psychic surgeon she went to. Romy Bugarin claimed he can remove a fibroid tumor from Jane's abdomen by putting his hand into her body and pulling out the tumor without surgery. Jane said he used a glass of water and a peanut as an example.
She said, "He could put his hand through the water and pull the peanut out and then the water closes up… That he could put his hand through your skin and grab the tumor and pull it out and the skin would close back up."
Another strange thing is that Bugarin practices his "psychic surgery" in a Heights chiropractic clinic of Dr. Michael Bonner. The title "Dr." lends credibility to the scam.
"There's a lot of people going and a lot of people that are very ill, with diseases like cancer," said Jane. "That, I feel is horrible, that they're praying on ill people that are in a very dire situation."
The author of "The Facts about Faith Healing" wrote that Romy Bugarin was named in an alleged scam. The article said chicken blood and animal organs are used in the scam.
Should a chiropractor let his office be used to perpetuate a scam? To lead poor people to believe that cancers can be removed as if by magic?
We're certainly not in favor of scam artists here at PubliusTX.net, but at some point you have to ask someone who actually thought a man with demonstrated ability to remove a peanut from a glass of water could also remove tumors, WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING?!
Jane Doe indeed.
Sometimes this town just makes me shake my head.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/14/04 18:39 | Houston | Technorati
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I'm more scared that Reliant Energy tells us that a balloon knocked out power to three circuits along Kirby and interrupted an NFL game on Sunday.
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