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In a 58-page ruling Friday, Brown County District Judge John Rodenberg found that Daniel Hauser has been “medically neglected” and is in need of child protection services.

Doctors have said Daniel’s cancer had up to a 90% chance of being cured with chemotherapy and radiation. Without those treatments, doctors said his chances of survival are 5%.

The Missouri-based religious group believes in natural healing methods advocated by some American Indians.

The Hausers, who are Roman Catholic, have eight children. Colleen Hauser told the New Ulm Journal newspaper that the family’s Catholicism and adheren...

Snips from ReligionNewsBlog

In a 58-page ruling Friday, Brown County District Judge John Rodenberg found that Daniel Hauser has been “medically neglected” and is in need of child protection services.

Doctors have said Daniel’s cancer had up to a 90% chance of being cured with chemotherapy and radiation. Without those treatments, doctors said his chances of survival are 5%.

The Missouri-based religious group believes in natural healing methods advocated by some American Indians.

The Hausers, who are Roman Catholic, have eight children. Colleen Hauser told the New Ulm Journal newspaper that the family’s Catholicism and adherence to the Nemenhah Band are not in conflict, and said she has treated illness with natural remedies her entire life.

Nemenhah was founded in the 1990s by Philip Cloudpiler Landis, ...

Landis said he founded the faith after facing his diagnosis of a cancer similar to Daniel Hauser. He said he treated it with diet choices, visits to a sweat lodge and other natural remedies. Landis also once served four months in prison in Idaho for fraud related to advocating natural remedies.

You should try reading "Medical Mafia" It tells how doctors are trained by those "official" pharmaceutical companies and I have known for a loooong time that Chemo does NOT cure Cancer!!!

You might be right. Maybe they do it to bilk the poor victim before they die. Chemo is not very fun; it makes people sick and nauseous all the time, and they lose their hair. Chemo sucks.

No, I don't think Chemo is intended to be a cure for cancer. I think they do it to kill the cancer cells that are already there.

In any case, Oncologists have studied this disease for a long time. I don't suppose a work at home mom (or a simple religious belief) qualifies her with better tools to fight ca...

You should try reading "Medical Mafia" It tells how doctors are trained by those "official" pharmaceutical companies and I have known for a loooong time that Chemo does NOT cure Cancer!!!

You might be right. Maybe they do it to bilk the poor victim before they die. Chemo is not very fun; it makes people sick and nauseous all the time, and they lose their hair. Chemo sucks.

No, I don't think Chemo is intended to be a cure for cancer. I think they do it to kill the cancer cells that are already there.

In any case, Oncologists have studied this disease for a long time. I don't suppose a work at home mom (or a simple religious belief) qualifies her with better tools to fight cancer than all of medical technology.

I doubt if the religious group could even diagnose cancer, let alone purport to cure it by herbs and prayer. I'm just saying the kid has a better chance with actual doctors as opposed to superstition or faith in unproved elixirs.

Notice in the last sentence: "Landis also once served four months in prison in Idaho for fraud related to advocating natural remedies."

Cancer is very serious. That church has no medical experience. The court wants to give the boy a fighting chance.

I understand that. My comment was on medical history in general.

Yes, I agree.

Much of medical history is actually "derived" from so-called natural treatments (plants, trees, fungus, etc.). It's these compounds that have worked in the past that get scientific scrutiny specifically because many have in fact worked.

So I'm not saying these types of remedies don't work, I'm saying the ones that do work generally become mainstream because they've withstood scientific testing and we can most often tell exactly why they work, as well. (The science is often very extensive.)

Thus, the ones that do work often become mainstream medicine with plenty of testing and efficacy behind them...

I understand that. My comment was on medical history in general.

Yes, I agree.

Much of medical history is actually "derived" from so-called natural treatments (plants, trees, fungus, etc.). It's these compounds that have worked in the past that get scientific scrutiny specifically because many have in fact worked.

So I'm not saying these types of remedies don't work, I'm saying the ones that do work generally become mainstream because they've withstood scientific testing and we can most often tell exactly why they work, as well. (The science is often very extensive.)

Thus, the ones that do work often become mainstream medicine with plenty of testing and efficacy behind them. They become "primary", as opposed to alternative.

(But believe me, I am fully aware of the big pharma ripoff. In fact, when simple plant cures are shown to work, the first thing they do is classify it a "drug" so the common person can't utilize it unless they buy it from them! And they rarely care about actual cures... only profits. So they'd rather keep you on drugs to abate the symptoms, rather than outright cure you.)