Faith-healers and quacks: a study

La Presse’s Marie-Claude Malboeuf has done an entire study on the presence of quacks and faith healers in our society, one troubling aspect being suggestions that public money sometimes funds these snake-oil salespeople. I’m not going to summarize the whole picture, but you’ll find links to all the pieces within those pages. Rima Elkouri adds some thoughts on the people who turn to these charlatans and why they do.