A lot of writers before me have pointed out that Mother Teresa, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and globally revered saint,

actually followed practices that were hardly in line with such honors.

She was in fact quite cruel to the sick who came to her, by now there's no longer much controversy over that.

So does this mean that she was a hypocrite?

No, I'm going to argue in today's episode, Far From It.

De-crypting Mother Teresa is up next on Skeptoid.

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De-crypting Mother Teresa.

Today we're going to point our skeptical eye at Mother Teresa, one of the most controversial figures from the 20th century.

Controversial in that everything you might have heard about her in recent years is likely to be quite negative.

Despite her winning, a 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, and being renowned throughout the world as an advocate for the second poor,

an tireless and selfless aid worker without a thought for her own plight in the most horrid conditions.

But find any article about her online these days and it's more than likely to be a harsh criticism of her practices,

and of her personally from virtually every angle.

Was she all that bad?

Was she truly a saint? Or might there be other nuances yet unspoken?

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