Nine-Year-Old Girl Proves New Age Energy Fields Don’t Exist
Emily Rosa at age 11, the year she published the study in JAMA (photo courtesy of her mother, Linda Rosa RN and Wikicommons)
New Age energy workers insist that the cause of all of mankind’s ills are related to imbalances in an alleged universal life force energy known as chi, qi, prana, vital force, etc. Thanks to the sophistication of modern science, it was easy to prove that this energy doesn’t exist, so easy, in fact, that a nine-year-old girl thoroughly debunked the claims of these “energy workers” in a fourth-grade science fair project!
Tagged: Emily Rosa • Energy Medicine • JAMA • Therapeutic Touch
The Facts About Energy-based Massage
We have numerous questions from both patients and health care providers about the use of energy massage techniques such as Therapeutic Touch, Healing Touch, Hands of Light, Reiki, etc. in hospitals and hospice care. Are these practices New Age; if so, why are they so prevalent in health care facilities?
Tagged: bogus therapies • Dolores Krieger • Hands of Light • Healing Touch • New Age massage • Oscar Estabany • Therapeutic Touch • universal life force
Why is Energy Medicine and Other New Age Quackery Getting into So Many Hospitals?
MM asks: "If energy medicine and other alternatives are scientifically unsubstantiated, why are so many of them showing up in U.S. hospitals?"
Tagged: Dolores Krieger • Oscar Estabany • Therapeutic Touch