Talk:Dirk Benedict

message: wikilinks need fixing. several do not point to the correct pagesBadgerpatrol 03:42, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
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Benedict was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1974. The medical doctors recommended surgery, but he claimed to have cured his cancer through a macrobiotic diet recommended by Gloria Swanson, exercise and fasting, over a period of 3 years under the guidance of Michio Kushi according to his book Confessions Of A Kamikaze Cowboy. He continues the diet to this day.
Note:  Dirk Benedict, by his own admission, was never diagnosed with prostate cancer by a medical doctor, but by a psychic doctor from Italy who worked with the negative of a certain model Polaroid only, which he claimed delivered the person's aura.  Dirk, at 28, would have been nearly unique in the medical world if he did have prostate cancer, which typically does not present until decades later in life.  Please read more in his autobiography.
Until it can be sourced and verified. Rockpocket 18:22, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've just removed the paragraph in question, that had since been wrongly reinstated. It claims he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1974, and that it was cured through diet. If it is possible for a white man to have prostate cancer in his twenties, then it is extremely rare - can anyone name any documented cases? It has never been possible to cure any type of cancer with any kind of diet. Poor diet often causes cancer; a healthy diet greatly reduces the risk of developing it in the first place; a poor diet can exacerbate an already existing cancer. However, once someone already has cancer, it is not possible for any diet whatsoever to make the cancer disappear. I am unable to find any reliable online source that states he was ever diagnosed with prostate cancer. Those sites that claim he was diagnosed with prostate cancer disagree regarding which year he was diagnosed, and which country he was diagnosed in, making the claims even more unlikely. They don't state who supposedly diagnosed him, although some say it was a psychic. One site claims a psychic diagnosed him merely by looking at a photograph of him. Since 'psychics' are not qualified to diagnose diseases, and that there is no proof that psychic powers exist at all, it is highly unlikely that he has ever had prostate cancer. Psychics tell lies in order to con money out of gullible, vulnerable people. It is almost certain that Benedict was the victim of a confidence trick, by a person claiming to be a psychic, who took money from him in order to sell him a 'consultation' and an expensive 'wonder diet' which which actually had no positive effect (apart from perhaps a placebo effect). Cancer is one of the more common ways in which psychics con people. Many of them falsely claim to be able to cure people who actually have cancer, at a high financial cost. A less common, but known method is falsely diagnosing cancer in people who feel ill without knowing the true cause of their discomfort, then claiming to be able to cure it in return for a great deal of money. Unless someone can show genuine proof that Benedict ever had cancer, then no mention of it should be included on this biographical encyclopedia article. An autobiography cannot really be proof of a fact of that person's life, as it autobiographies are notoriously often inaccurate, written for profit, not to accurately inform its readers. An autobiography, unlike biographies of living people, do not have to be concerned with the possibility of libelling the subject. In addition, an autobiographer may include information which, although false, he believes to be true. Werdnawerdna (talk) 03:34, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Something else to consider in this health statement is that "castration" is not a normal procedure for prostate cancer.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.129.186.247 (talk) 00:49, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I am not a doctor, but it is my understanding that most if not all western physicians take ANY enlarged prostrate as, if not pre-cancerous, then at least in need of serious invasive intervention.  There are plenty of doctors on BOTH sides of the issue of the OVER-diagnosis of prostrate cancer, which can in many cases progress so slowly, even if absolutely cancerous, to allow many years of normal life without treatment.  There is, of course, the faster form of prostrate cancer which can be terminal very quickly.  Whether or not Mr. Benedict has the right to self-diagnose, to recommend that others do or do not self-diagnose and self-treat (which of course means that they avoid conventional treatment which might well be a fatal decision) is outside of the proper scope of this TALK page.  The book, and the general argument of the book ( which denies is a proper autobiography) are appropriate to be mentioned in the article, though not in depth.  The depth analysis would go in another article, probably not notable and quickly deleted, but not necessarily.  Regardless, to say that "no cancer has ever been, nor ever can be, cured by diet alone" is not only not germaine to this TALK page, but obviously false to any student of introductory logic.  An absolute negative cannot be decicively proven, only intuited anecdotally, and there ARE many anecdotes of  dietary cures, especially of this particular form of cancer, and especially if the definition of "cancerous" hinges on elargement.  Dirk discusses how the enlargement comes about in his book: why he in particular would be prone to such a problem at such a young age, based on his early diet.  Once again, this argument dosn't belong on this page in the first place: see "What Wikipedia is not." and NPOV.  Rags (talk) 12:49, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
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message: In the new A-Team movie he can be seen playing a prisoner named "Pensacola Prisoner Milt" in the credits at IMDB, here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0429493/fullcredits#cast  however I don't post info to the article, i put it here and let an expert edit the main article. Thank-You!!!Lesbrown99 (talk) 03:24, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: HE IS '''IN''' THE NEW A-TEAM MOVIE

message: Doesn't anybody have another, picture where he ideally would occupy most of the picture, and look a little nicer? Debresser (talk) 14:37, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
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message: this is a made for tv film with no wiki page. not the german film in the link
Gjxj (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 13:03, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
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message: How ist DB a philosopher? No info in the article. KhlavKhalash (talk) 07:07, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
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