Psychic surgery
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| It has been denounced by the [[United States|US]] [[Federal Trade Commission]] as a "total hoax", and the [[American Cancer Society]] maintains that psychic surgery may cause needless death by keeping the ill away from life-saving medical care. Medical professionals and skeptics classify it as [[sleight of hand]] and any positive results as a [[placebo effect]]. It first appeared in the [[Spiritualism|Spiritualist]] communities of the [[Philippines]] and [[Brazil]] in the middle of the 20th century, and it has taken different paths in those two countries. | It has been denounced by the [[United States|US]] [[Federal Trade Commission]] as a "total hoax", and the [[American Cancer Society]] maintains that psychic surgery may cause needless death by keeping the ill away from life-saving medical care. Medical professionals and skeptics classify it as [[sleight of hand]] and any positive results as a [[placebo effect]]. It first appeared in the [[Spiritualism|Spiritualist]] communities of the [[Philippines]] and [[Brazil]] in the middle of the 20th century, and it has taken different paths in those two countries. | ||
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| - | *[[Faith healing]] | + | * [[Alternative cancer treatments]] |
| - | *[[Health fraud]] | + | * [[Faith healing]] |
| - | *[[Alternative cancer treatments]] | + | * [[Gray's Anatomy (film)|''Gray's Anatomy'' (film)]] |
| - | *[[List of topics characterized as pseudoscience]] | + | * [[Health fraud]] |
| + | * [[List of topics characterized as pseudoscience]] | ||
| + | * [[Psychic]] | ||
| + | * [[Psychokinesis]] | ||
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Psychic surgery, a pseudoscience constituting medical fraud, is when a practitioner creates the illusion of performing surgery with his or her bare hands and uses trickery, fake blood, and animal parts to convince the patient that the diseased lesions were removed and that the incision spontaneously healed.
It has been denounced by the US Federal Trade Commission as a "total hoax", and the American Cancer Society maintains that psychic surgery may cause needless death by keeping the ill away from life-saving medical care. Medical professionals and skeptics classify it as sleight of hand and any positive results as a placebo effect. It first appeared in the Spiritualist communities of the Philippines and Brazil in the middle of the 20th century, and it has taken different paths in those two countries.
See also
- Alternative cancer treatments
- Faith healing
- Gray's Anatomy (film)
- Health fraud
- List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
- Psychic
- Psychokinesis
