Dermot O'Connor.

[Admin]

http://www.whatreallyworks.co.uk/start/authorZone_home.asp?authorID=13

Has anyone heard of him or have any information on him?

He was told by doctors that he ought to move to a bungalow as his MS would soon render him unable to move around or function properly.

Eight years later Dermot claims he is in the best health of his life, feels he is no longer suffering from MS. and has become one of Europe's leading authorities on Emotional Health, Holistic Nutrition and mind/body medicine.

In 'The Healing Code' (his new book) Dermot tells the story of his amazing recovery and shows you how you too might also achieve recovery and the same level of well-being through his proven five step strategy for surviving against the odds.

Dermot has studied healing therapies with some of the world's leading practitioners of oriental healing arts, is a certified Master of the ancient chinese healing system, Medical Qigong, and a certified Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)which he studied with its creator Dr Richard Bandler.

Here's his website: http://www.acupunctureireland.com/ - it looks like it's dedicated to quackery and the endorsement by Paul McKenna doesn't exactly add weight to his claims.

[Lord Muck oGentry]

John,

Just an idle thought here. Do we know how his MS was diagnosed? ( I've looked, but can't see anything.) I mention it only because I've seen stuff recently suggesting that MRI, which is widely used for diagnosis, may not be a good test. This raises the possibility of a Lourdes cure for an illness that never was.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Neurology/MultipleSclerosis/tb/2929


Just an idle thought, as I say...

[Admin]

I think that the first port of call with 'miracle cures' is to check for a misdiagnosis. It might not be possible to prove it of course, but it is certainly a major candidate for the illusion of an unlikely cure.

Interestingly, a misdiagnosis and subsequent 'miracle cure' would probably lead the patient truly believe that their cure was miraculous and that their method of achieving this cure was genuine.

There are other explanations of course, such as him being in remission and wrongly thinking that he's been cured and even fraud to sell books!!

He's not well known enough to form any judgements yet though.

[Mojo]

Also, even if MS was correctly diagnosed, what type was it? There is more than one type of MS, and some of them usually have periods of remission. Whatever, we're basically looking at a N=1 anecdote here.

[vbloke]

The obvious thing here would be to email him and ask >:D

See if he'll provide a full case history of his illness. ;D