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A database that tracks dubious medical claims.
Claim number: 8
Claimant: Solid Rock Church
Claim date: April 28, 2010
Forum in which the claim was made: Advert in Northcliffe/Melville Times
Claim methodology: Faith-healing
Frequency with which the claim is made by this claimant: Frequent
Actual claim: Cures AIDS
Plausibility of this claim: Untested and implausible
Responses
- Response no 11: ASASA Ruling on 2010-07-19
- Response no 10: Mrs. Hilary Phillips Complaint to ASASA on 2010-04-21
Description
The Newspaper Advert posted by Solid Rock Church stated, inter alia:
“Bring the blind, the lame, Aids and cancer victims
43 Crutches!
25 Walking sticks!
2 White canes from blind people!
Already left behind!”
It therefore implies that people with these conditions or ailments will be healed when visiting the church. These healing claims were unsubstantiated.
See ASASA ruling at: http://www.asasa.org.za/ResultDetail.aspx?Ruling=5210