John Heinerman

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'''John Heinerman''' {{lived|1946}} is an [[American]] [[anthropologist]], [[Fundamentalist Mormonism|fundamentalist Mormon]] and alternative medicine [[quack]]. His doctorate in anthropology was from Airlangga University in [[Indonesia]] and is not widely available.<ref name="Oxyrich">[http://www.oxyrich.info/information/oxygen/Oxy_heinerman.php John Heinerman]</ref>

==Background==
Heinerman is listed on [[cancer woo]] websites as the Director of the Anthropological Research Center in Salt Lake City, [[Utah]].<ref>[http://cancercontrolsociety.com/bio2000/heinerman.html John Heinerman]. Cancer Control Society.</ref> He is the editor-in-chief of the alternative medicine ''Folk Medicine Journal''{{cn}} and is a member of the [[Cancer Control Society]].<ref name="Oxyrich"/>

Heinerman is a proponent of [[oxygen therapy]], a [[quack]] medical treatment, and is endorsed on various [[food woo]] websites that sell "[[Pseudovitamin|Vitamin O]]" supplements.<ref>[http://www.brunnerbiz.com/vitamino/article.html Example 1], [https://www.rgarden.com/58.html Example 2].</ref><ref>[https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/oxygen-is-good-even-when-its-not-there/ Oxygen Is Good, Even When It's Not There]. Science Based-Medicine.</ref> He has been described on an oxygen supplement website as a "leading authority on stabilized oxygen, having completed the only two valid medical research studies that have ever been conducted using stabilised oxygen therapy on different cohorts that were [[Randomized controlled trial|randomized]] and blinded", however, neither of the papers were published in [[peer-reviewed]] medical journals.<ref name="Oxyrich"/>

In regard to one of his papers, [[Harriet Hall]] has commented that "this seriously flawed study fails to meet the most minimal requirements of a [[scientific]] [[experiment]]. It does not prove what it claims to prove: the presence of oxygen in Vitamin O."<ref>[http://www.skepdoc.info/a-failed-attempt-to-prove-that-oxygen-is-present-in-vitamin-o/ Analysis of Claims and of an Experiment to Prove That Oxygen is Present in “Vitamin O”]. SkepDoc.</ref>

==Cancer woo==

In a 2005 interview, Heinerman stated:<ref>[https://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/09/prweb287864.htm Cancer, Folk Medicine, and Herbs: an Interview with Dr. John Heinerman]</ref>

<blockquote>I am not a doctor. I am not licensed or qualified to practice medicine. But as a medical anthropologist I can share with people my observations and knowledge about what I have seen be efficacious in treating cancer around the world. My answer is yes, there are many plants that are effective in [[healing]] cancer including: [[List of medicinal plants#R|Red Clover Trifolium pretense]], [[List of medicinal plants#C|Chaparral Larrea divaricata]], Alfalfa, [[List of medicinal plants#G|Garlic]], and [[List of medicinal plants#D|Dandelion root]].</blockquote>

==Books==
[[File:Nauvoo Temple Sunstone 2003.jpg|thumb|Nauvoo Temple Sunstone which Heinerman believes represents real people that inhabit the sun.]]
Heinerman has written over 60 books including the following: 

*'''''The Treatment of Cancer with Herbs''''' (1980), claims that herbs can cure [[cancer]]. 

*In '''''Spiritual wisdom of the Native Americans''''' (1989), Heinerman made nonsensical claims that the spirituality of [[Native American]]s was influenced by Mormonism. One angry reviewer described it as a "Mormon book with a Native American cover".<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Wisdom-Native-Americans-Heinerman/dp/0945946058 Spiritual wisdom of the Native Americans]. Amazon.</ref> 

*His '''''People in Space: Documented Extraterrestrial Life on Other Worlds''''' (1990) is a strange book that supports Mormon cosmology and the irrational belief that the [[Moon]] is [[Extraterrestrial|inhabited by people]]. According to the book, "the author presents a convincing case for other human life forms in outer space. Moon people who live 1,000 years and dress like [[Quakers]], [[Venus]] as the [[Global flood|antediluvian]] [[Biblical]] "City of Enoch," [[Egyptian]]-like ruins on the surface of [[Mars]]."<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/People_in_Space.html?id=f7rUAQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y People in Space: Documented Extraterrestrial Life on Other Worlds] Google Books.</ref> Chapter three is entitled "The Sun and its strange Inhabitants". Heinerman claims that sunstone faces at the Nauvoo Temple represent inhabitants of the sun.<ref>[http://www.lds-mormon.com/planets.shtml People in Space by John Heinerman]</ref>

*'''''The Healing Benefits of Garlic''''' (1994), claims that garlic can help in curing [[AIDS]] and contagious diseases.

*In '''''Nature's Super 7 Medicines''''' (1997), Heinerman advertises the "incredible healing powers" of [[antioxidant]]s, bee pollen, [[cayenne pepper]], garlic and onions, [[ginseng]], [[turmeric]] and wheat grass to [[Panacea|cure practically all diseases]]. [[Nutritionist]] Kurt Butler described the book as "preposterous [[pseudoscience]] from an anthropologist posing as a medical expert" and noted that "there is not one reference to a scientific study supporting the fantastic claims".<ref>Butler, Kurt. (1999). ''Lying for Fun and Profit: The Truth about the Media: Exposes the Corrupt Symbiosis Between Media Giants and the Health Fraud Industries''. Health Wise Productions. p. 74. ISBN 978-0967328102</ref>

==See also==
*[[Pseudovitamin]]

==References==
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