{"id":102450,"date":"2025-08-28T16:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/102450\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T16:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:07:13","slug":"dangerous-health-guru-to-host-795-seminars-at-donald-trumps-turnberry-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/102450\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dangerous&#8217; health guru to host \u00a3795 seminars at Donald Trump&#8217;s Turnberry hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Barbara O\u2019Neill, who markets herself as an international speaker on natural healing, was banned from giving health advice or treatment in Australia after an investigation found several of her teachings were found to be dangerous.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It was revealed that the 72-year-old had no relevant formal qualifications and had never been a member of any accredited professional health organisation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Her advice included claims that cancer was a fungus that could be cured by bicarbonate of soda, rather than chemotherapy, and that mothers should feed their babies raw milk despite medical advice warning it can contain bacteria harmful to infants.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25415064.scottish-screenwriter-paul-laverty-gives-statement-terrorism-charge\/?rel=cl_lsa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty gives statement after terrorism charge<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  O\u2019Neill will attend two Scottish hotels next month, Trump Turnberry and Crieff Hydro, to offer her online fans the chance to meet her in person.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The six-day course at the US president\u2019s hotel will set attendees back \u00a3795, with accommodation packages also available for fans at an additional cost.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Margaret McCartney, a Scottish GP, warned people that following so-called experts with non-scientific advice and methods can be harmful.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She told the Daily Record: \u201cPeople are, of course, entitled to believe what they want.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cBut if you are making a decision about your health, I\u2019d recommend consulting with people who follow the principles of evidence-based medicine. This is especially true in areas of vaccination and cancer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cUnfortunately, there are a lot of people who don\u2019t offer scientific advice and are capable of doing real harm to people through inaccurate information and scaremongering.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She added: \u201cWhen we make decisions about our health, it\u2019s crucial that we have access to high-quality and unbiased information. Otherwise we may think we are making wise choices when we are not.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>(Image: NQ)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Advertised on the Good Food Project website with the slogan \u201cLet Food Be Thy Medicine\u201d the events include a series of 20 lectures by O\u2019Neill and guest speakers over the six days as well as Q&amp;A sessions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Despite experts warning the dangerous advice and practices offered by O\u2019Neill, singer Susan Boyle has reportedly previously attended a wellness event and spoke in O\u2019Neill\u2019s defence last year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In 2019, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/health\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Health<\/a> Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) in New South Wales found that O\u2019Neill had given potentially dangerous advice regarding antibiotics and vaccinations, along with her advice on cancer and raw milk for babies, in lectures, online seminars and articles published on her website.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  O\u2019Neill claimed in one lecture that \u201cthe human body was designed to heal itself and does not need to be vaccinated\u201d.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She added: \u201cIf you stop taking the flu shot, it will prevent you from getting Alzheimer\u2019s disease.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Banning her from practising, the HCCC said it was \u201cconcerned that Mrs O\u2019Neill does not recognise she is misleading vulnerable people, including mothers and cancer sufferers\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  According to the watchdog&#8217;s investigation, it found that O\u2019Neill had falsely claimed in one lecture, without evidence, that a doctor had a 90% success rate curing cancer with sodium bicarbonate injections.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaHx9kx1dAvyKrRoxz1F\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/17627538.jpg\"\/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The HCCC found that while O\u2019Neill was a trainee nurse in a psychiatric hospital in the 1970s, she was never a member of any accredited professional health organisation and had no relevant health-related degrees or diplomas.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  On her website, she describes herself as an \u201cauthor, educator, and an international speaker at large on natural self-healing, who has raised eight children and loves to help mothers with their children\u2019s health\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barbara O\u2019Neill, who markets herself as an international speaker on natural healing, was banned from giving health advice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,137,490],"class_list":{"0":"post-102450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-medication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}