In a particularly egregious exchange, King asks Knight, in his mock-serious rhetorical style, “What about a factor you can’t control, like a disease? Cancer. You can’t control cancer.” Knight’s response is horrifying:

I disagree with that because I believe that the ability of the brain and our ability to access it properly to produce the mind that essentially—the concept mind over matter, that we produce a powerful mind. We can cure our own cancer.



I mean, the whole act of the placebo act—you have to take all these placebos in a drug test because if you believe it cures you, it will. And it’s the same concept.



We have an amazing untapped ability inside of us, and as Dean Radin said here, that we create, even affect external activity, the external reality. We affect the physical reality as well. We affect—our body, our DNA hears everything we think. Our DNA is based upon our thought patterns in general. But we evolve them; we change the disease.

The placebo effect is real and documentable. As is the concept that one’s attitude when facing disease can have some impact the efficacy of treatment—to an extent and in certain circumstances. But that’s it. Someone with cancer can’t simply cure his disease with his mind. Suggesting otherwise, while passing oneself off as an expert, is hugely problematic. It’s misleading, and for individuals who make medical decisions based on such bunk information, the consequences could be fatal.

Instead of following up on Knight’s comment, King veered away to another guest and another topic. This was typical throughout the program.

It’s bad enough to have someone like Knight come on your show to talk as an expert about science and health. But then to not challenge such absurd and potentially dangerous assertions is a serious disservice to his audience. King and his staff should be ashamed; the medical, scientific, and journalistic worlds should be outraged.

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