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Preposterous though it seems, that's pretty much what happened last week when Emily Rosa's experiment was written up in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Rosa's target was a practice known as therapeutic touch (TT for short), whose proponents manipulate patients' "energy fields" to make them feel better and even, say some, to cure them of various ills. Yet Emily's test shows that these energy fields can't be detected, even by trained TT practitioners. Obviously mindful of the publicity value of the situation, Journal editor George Lundberg appeared on TV to declare, "Age doesn...
...really did carry out the experiment, but she is not quite the naive child who saw through the emperor's new clothes. Her mother Linda Rosa, a registered nurse, has been campaigning against TT for nearly a decade, and her stepfather Larry Sarner is chairman of the National Therapeutic Touch Study Group, an anti-TT organization...
...late '80s, when she learned it was on the approved list for continuing nursing education in Colorado, along with everything from acupressure to "nurse-assisted near-death experience." TT bugged her more than most. Its 100,000 trained practitioners (48,000 in the U.S.) don't even touch their patients. Instead, they wave their hands a few inches from the patient's body, pushing energy fields around until they're in "balance." TT advocates say these manipulations can help heal wounds, relieve pain and reduce fever. The claims are taken seriously enough that TT therapists are frequently hired by leading...
They keep in touch with the real world in a number of ways. Several host fellows come for a year of academics and to share their work experiences with Harvard students. Others host weekly brown bag lunches with guests from the field. And all focus their research on current public debate...
Malcolm X performed the Hajj and thereafter became Malik El-Shabazz Observing Muslims of all races living in unity and supporting one another, he shed any ideas of racial hatred. The Eid and the Hajj teach lessons on equality, simplicity, sacrifice and community that touch us all as human beings. Of the Hajj, El-Shabazz said, "I don't believe that motion picture cameras ever have filmed a human spectacle than my eyes took in." Reflection on this spectacle surely warrants our attention...