Another "Alternative medicine Doctor" exposed...

[Archae]

Well, well...

Dr. Dragan Dabic (D. D. David)

Dr. Dragan Dabic, also known as D. D. David, practiced as an energy healer in Belgrade and gave public lectures on spirituality. His website promised effective relief from such afflictions as impotence and autism.* He claimed energy healing could cure diabetes, asthma, epilepsy and multiple sclerosis.* His business card read: Dabic, Spiritual Explorer.* You could email him at [e-mail].

Dabic was a regular contributor to Belgrade's "Healthy Life" magazine, according to the magazine's editor-in-chief Goran Kojic. On January 28, 2008, he attended a conference sponsored by "Healthy Life." A video of him at the conference was made by Kikinda Television in Serbia and has been posted by online by the BBC. Dabic was known as a "researcher in the fields of psychology and bio-energy."* He gave lectures on healthy living and billed himself as an expert in calmness and meditation.*

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As is usual with people who make extraordinary claims that defy a scientific understanding of the world and stretch credulity to the borderlands of sanity, nobody bothered to check Dabic's credentials or investigate his ridiculous claims. Had they done a little investigation they might have discovered that Dabic's real name is Radovan Karadzic, a fugitive wanted for genocide, including the massacre at Srebrenica and the siege of Sarajevo.

Karadzic was arrested in Belgrade on July 21, 2008. Before his arrest, he was last seen in public in the eastern Bosnian town of Han Pijesak in July 1996. Karadzic was trained as a psychiatrist, which, according to Peter Finn and Kevin Sullivan of the Washington Post, "appears to have helped him fit into the world of alternative medicine."

http://www.skepdic.com/dragandabic.html

[Ian David]

1. Good riddance. n/t