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CASE 3
“Biofield therapeutics” is known commonly as touch therapy. The practitioner moves his hands over the body of the patient an inch or two away, smoothing and balancing the patient’s “energy field” or aura. Practitioners claim this field extends outward from the body for several inches. A trained touch therapist says he/she can sense by touch your energy field and then fix it if it’s not aligned. The practice was adopted in the U.S. from ancient Chinese practitioners of qi gong by Delores Krieger, a professor of nursing at New York University. No one has been harmed by having his or her aura read and manipulated. But there is no evidence of therapeutic benefit, other than testimonials from satisfied recipients. Emily Rosa was an 11-year-old schoolgirl who decided it would be possible to do a double-blind test of the claim that touch therapists can feel the body’s energy field, described by therapists as tingling, warm, or offering a gentle resistance. She asked 21 local touch therapists in Boulder, Colorado to submit to a beautifully simple double-blind test she invented for her science fair project. She spent $10 on materials. She was seated across a table from each touch therapist. The table was divided by a screen so Emily and therapist could not see each other. The therapist would extend both of his/her hands, palms down, through holes in the screen Emily purchased. Emily would then place one of her hands just below, but not touching, one of the therapist’s hands. She used a coin toss to decide under which of the therapist’s hands she would place her own (left or right). The therapist would then be asked to begin, and he/she was to identify under which hand of his/her own was Emily’s hand, left or right, based on sensing Emily’s hand’s energy field. The entire procedure for all 21 therapists was captured on video tape. In 273 trials (each therapist got to try 13 times), therapists scored a combined total of 44% correct in their identification of Emily’s hand being under their own left or right hand, based on reading of her hand’s “energy field.” Guessing would produce 50% accuracy. (Emily’s experiment was written up and submitted to the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association. Emily became the youngest person ever to have a paper published in a major medical journal.)
Three of the therapists subsequently responded to Emily’s published article, each with one of the following claims:
(a) We wanted Emily to become famous and we don’t believe her scientific report “exposing” us will prevent any of us from continuing our careers as manipulators of energy auras (if for no other reason than that our clients don’t read scientific journals).
(b) We only identified her energy less than half the times we tried, but that is because she doubted our abilities to read auras. She blocked us by doubting us. We can read anyone’s energy so long as they believe in us.
(c) We have learned from this experience that we have to see the patient’s body in order to read and manipulate someone’s energy field. We didn’t realize this before, thinking our hands alone were enough to manipulate the real, colored energy coming off everyone’s bodies. Thank you, Emily. We learned more about our own powers because of you.
PROMPTS: Analyze each of the responses (a), (b), and (c). Prove each excuse is logically unacceptable.
