Penn and Teller Expose Therapeutic Touch

[minnescanada]

So many scams parading as medical treatments. Those who practice this should feel shame. For those who say felt improved by the treatment, you would have improved regardless oof whether you had it or not.

[aflowerfairymom]

all i can say is i have had numbness in my right hand for years, building up with each pregnancy till it failed to leave after my 4th child was born. I went to a number of western mds, chiropractors, chinese mds, and acupuncturist, and it was during a demo of TT that a fellow attender cleared it, i felt it go immediately! So I don't care what you say....even if it was "only" placebo, it worked! and the TT woman ran the demo for free so she certainly was not bilking anyone!

[aflowerfairymom]

you know...whether it works or not...it hardly helps anyone have any credibility of report when you have a mouth like a sewer

[BigBrauner]

The real question would be: what is the half-life of this fad?

[BoingotheClown]

A nine year old doing REAL SCIENCE. No wonder pseudoscience quacks are afraid of education!

[flynfun1]

5 peer reviewed, double blind studies have been completed on the effectiveness of therepeutic touch/Reiki. Score: 0 for 5, the placebo is equally effective!!

Sadly, the followers 0f this practice often believe in lots of other new age quackery.

[RuskoE]

There's a term for the belief in something even when the evidence is clear that you are wrong. It's called cognitive dissonance. People who put faith in mysticism are unfortunate. People who sell the snake oil to the unfortunate are dispicable. By giving false hope to the wary and even replacing real treatment with baloney, the practitioners are the real health hazard.

[AskAlice24]

Its like religion, if people believe it, and think an omnipresent being controls everything. Theni t will be true for them. You don't believe in it fine, you can't be convinced. You do believe in it, fine, you can't be convinced of anything else.

[disneybear]

Yes I am very aware of Quantum Physics and it has been bastardized by the new age movement. Real Quantum physics and science do not support human energy fields, sorry. I don't need to watch a video when I have study quantum theory as well as researched the best available evidence regarding TT in peer reviewed journals. There is no credible evidence. If something isn't measurable, claiming it exists doesn't make it so.

[gigiontube]

Therapeutic touch is used a lot with born premature babies, and it really works.

Is used also for people with cancer. Go and tell them is not working for them.

Here is another video with a different thinking than yours.

Search for "Therapeutic Touch on Unsolved Mysteries.mp4 " on youtube.

And again, if you don't believe in therapeutic touch, have someone doing it around your dick. Then, come and comment again here, for everyone to read your comment. What was your experience?

[disneybear]

@gigiontube There is no credible evidence of energy fields surrounding us. TT effect is purely placebo.

[gigiontube]

@disneybear

You must be joking, true? No credible evidence of energy fields surrounding us?

Have you heard of quantum physics?

Go and watch this video, and tell Mr. Feynman that he was wrong, and all the physicists are wrong.

[DerekBurns]

@gigiontube.

When people tell lies, theres always somebody who will believe it. That's 2 fools, the liar and the believer.

Add to that another type of person who is looking to exploit the weakness of such fools, and then use the fools themselves to offer some substace to the bullshit claims.

Which are you, fool or liar?

[dave4248]

That gal is hot. But give Dr Steve some credit. He's almost 80. I'd say he looks good for his age. Hot? No, but good for his age.

[NusquamNihil]

Heh heh, I remember a skeptic talkign to the master of aura reading (auras are a type of energy field around humans, apparently, that some people allege they can "read" and interact with). He held a paper up against his head and asked if they could see his aura, and he was told yes. So he said, if I were to walk behind a brick wall, you would be able to tell where I was? The answer, of course, was no. ;)