Still not worth the risk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n“The deleterious effects of viewing Criss Angel’s program can’t be overstated,” states a prominent surgeon, emphatically. “Sure, his haircut, lisp and imbecilic manner are endearing at first. But we’re talking about optic nerve damage here, and there’s nothing endearing about that.”<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Medical authorities in Las Vegas are warning that a television series on Spike TV, “Criss Angel BeLIEve,” featuring magician Criss Angel, is so awful, it may actually cause blindness and other lifelong side effects. “We feel it’s important to make the public aware of just how detrimental repeated viewings of this program can be,” said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,4,30],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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