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- From: alex@csn.org (ALEX MATTHEWS)
- Subject: Therapeutic Touch (was: Re: New Physics, Healing, Paranormal)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.212604.25753@colorado.edu>
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- References: <C1H02x.K38@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1993Jan27.035336.6911@Princeton.EDU> <-xq3+jr@rpi.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:26:04 GMT
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- In article <-xq3+jr@rpi.edu> petitc@nuge112.its.rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Petit) writes:
- >
- > Properly done therapudic touching can help heal sicknesses by making the
- >subject feel cared for...
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- CRAP, please. The Rocky Mountain Skeptics today confront the Colorado
- State Nursing Board about the accreditation of therapeutic touch
- courses for continuing ed credits for nurses. The Board's mandate
- is to regulate the practice of nursing according to available
- scientific evidence. The board has released its "scientific"
- evidence, a bibliography of over 200 articles, most from the popular
- press. Of the true scientific papers, only a few claim extremely
- marginal positive results, and NO POSITIVE RESULTS ARE REPLICATED.
- This is probably the most comprehensive bibliography available because
- one of the most published and influential TT researchers is a prof
- at CU in Denver, and she supplied the bibliography to the Board.
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- If you have additional information, we'd be very happy to add it
- to the bibliography and review it.
-
- (Followups to sci.skeptic. Anybody who's interested, read the SI
- Winter 1993 issue, or yesterday's article in the local paper, The
- Daily Camera, 1/27/93.)
- --
- - Alex Matthews (new address: alexm.csn.org)
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