@guardian: Health lecturer and former naturopath Barbara O'Neill has been permanently banned from providing any health services in her home country of Australia after authorities found she “posed a risk to public safety" in 2019. But that has not stopped O'Neill from touring the world, and on her latest stop in Cheshire, advising people on a variety of medical ailments and dismissing the use of antibiotics, vaccines or scientifically proven cancer treatment. Guardian journalist Robyn Vinter went undercover for one day of the five-day conference in the UK county, attended by hundreds of people in person and online, to hear the false claims she is spreading. After the Guardian approached O’Neill for comment on her claims made at the conference, a video of her and her husband, Michael O'Neill, appeared on social media warning their followers of “disgusting” reporting. Michael claimed the couple had not received complaints about O’Neill’s work and highlighted statistics about medical mistakes in the NHS. He added: “The campaign against Barbara by the media, and academics is a modern-day witch hunt that has no substance in facts, but purely an ideology that supports the most corrupt organisation in the world; the pharmaceutical industry.” The pair have said they will continue holding events. O’Neill says she is driven by God, who she believes spoke directly to her. Read the full story at the link in bio.

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Tuesday 20 October 2026 16:12:50 GMT