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Vigilant
clearly you have been living in my house and know just what I have and have not done. one of callahan's best disciples has denounced him and TFT. there is no study even hinting at EFT's efficacy, beyond the placebo effect. CAM is offered as a course in many medical schools in order to inform students about the range of treatments their patients may encounter.
at least you acknowledge the unverifiable nature of qi and unprovability of acupuncture. your defense of this pseudoscience and ad hominem assault on barret reveal your lack of integrity
so whereas i don't know the color of your table cloth you apparently know that i lack integrity - you must be a mighty person, to perceive this through a few series ones and zeros
quackbusters is a fraud, and has been revealed to be so on countless occassions - its an unreliable and totally biased source of information
incidentally, most medicos like barret clearly don't even know that they are actually refering to themselves, since the origin of the name "quack" actually refers to the "quack" medical doctors of the 19th and 20th centuries that used "quack" (quick) silver (i.e. mercury), along with bloodletting, in the treatment of almost ALL disease and jolly well killed most of their patients (puts the medical journal "The Lancet" in some perspective now, doesn't it)
but we can all see that you are skeptical rationalist, ready to challenge anything that doesn't fit into your neat little set of aristotlean logic - well, it may surprise you that there are other ways to measure the world
yes there are people that have "denounced" TFT (but let's be specific - what Monica Pignotti criticized in an acdemic and scholarly way was Callahan's VT, not the entire field of energetic psychology) but there are many more practitioners that previously advocated frontal lobotomies and electroshock therapy that have shied away from these treatments as well - at least the field of energetic psychology follows the bottom line hippocratic maxim
which brings me to the fact that the [b:caf7c5d5f1]medical system remains the #3 killer of americans[/b:caf7c5d5f1], and that doesn't even take into account medical errors (would you like citations??)
despite the shrill whining of people like you and barret the public and practitioners have a right and a very good reason to investigate alternatives, to shift the paradigm around how we view disease and the patient because clearly modern medicine is an non-sustainable public health disaster
as for your nonsensical claim that medical doctors are just doing their due diligance by boning up on CAM, many of the leaders in the CAM field ARE medical doctors and allied health professionals, and are pushing developments in the field forward by develop new research methodologies that take into account the unique nature of CAM treatments; see [
www.cameraresearchnetwork.ab.ca]
if you are an intelligent person then please take a look at a drug pharmacopeia and you will see that the pharmacology of many drugs are not well understood, sometimes not understood at all, and yet they continue to be prescribed, even for off label purposes
so what is this quakery you complain of?