STOSSEL TESTING THERAPEUTIC TOUCH

A fantastic example of the application of the scientific method to the claims of quackery! Featuring Emily Rosa, the youngest person ever to publish in the prestigious JAMA -- Journal of the American Medical Association.

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[Biohazard1999]

Truth - Emily Rosa is the HOTTEST scientist in the world now :)

[TheBilly]

@bvolsky "If you've taken science classes you know there's no such thing as proof"

Oh dear lord. You obviously failed those science classes. Re-enroll.

[kirbykidsmith]

@nguyency77

the physiological effect isn't what is desired. All that matters to TT is whether the patient feels better. You dont have to believe in whether TT works or not, but you have to realize that if a doctor's main concern is his patient's health, then he also knows their health is proportional to their mental state. Psychology. I'd eliminate non-placebo from your requirements, because, well, why should it matters? Healing effects are healing effects, whether you can explain them or not.

[nguyency77]

@amberfwn

I refuse to believe in anything that is not supported by good science. If it means endangering my patients, I have no time nor patience for ponies and rainbows. If doing TT makes you happy, fine. Until you or any other TT "practitioner" can show me that your work can have a positive, non-placebo, KEY WORD physiological healing effect, I will not waste my time believing in this non-sense.

[amberfwn]

@nguyency77 I have enough work here on people I know to travel there. Also, we would have no need for most doctors if any if everyone could learn to heal. I never leaned to heal, it came naturally. You should open your mind more.

[Smithpolly]

@amberfwn The video shows that lots of people can convince themselves that they have special healing powers simply because they want to believe that. People aren't just motivated by money. Feeling that they can heal someone can give them a sense of purpose in life.

[nguyency77]

@Smithpolly

I second this. I'm Asian and half the stuff my parents believe in makes no sense. Kind of like TT.

[nguyency77]

@amberfwn

Then please, come visit the nursing home where I work and kindly "heal" my suffering patients. See if your healing touch can take away their pain of being abandoned by their own children, of living with dementia, of their families just waiting for them to die so that they could split the inheritance. No one has that kind of power, ma'am. If people truly did, we would have no need for doctors.

[amberfwn]

@AIn8dx As a healer I think most healers do feel the human energy. I though can heal but I don't feel any human energy.

[amberfwn]

@nguyency77 I heal people with my hands, I take pain away. I don't charge and it comes natural to me. Whether you believe it or not is up to you.

[nguyency77]

@Sheldonwh

Right on. TT is total quackery. The "education" required of these practitioners is even more limited than that of your average nursing home aide. There is no evidence supporting the effectiveness of this garbage. Clearly, we cannot abandon good evidence-based practice in the name of magic. You cannot disguise quackery under the all-inclusive umbrella of "alternative medicine."

[lfolourenco]

A lot of people seems to fill well and get better with the aplication of therapies like reiki and TT whatever the explanations are. Is it wise to abdicate from those therapies (that in my opinion sould be use only like a complement of convencional medicine) just because we don´t know if exists such "magic" energy?