Apparently Harvard is also researching alternative healing modalities:
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/04.18/09-tummo.html

On Feb 8, 12:01 pm, Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bloody hell, what is this?
>
> I agree with you Fidds.  In fact I saw a piece in the news the other
> week about this.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8489019.stm
>
> No the agreement is out of the way lets talk about your prediliction
> for putting others down.
>
> My freind of course the uneducated have nonsense running through their
> heads, they are uneducated.  However many educated people belive in
> such nonsense too, so what governs the willingness to belive
> nonsense?  I don't think education has as much to do with it as you
> assume.
>
> On 5 Feb, 19:57, fiddler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > IMO, when anyone makes a health claim, it needs to be tested. For so
> > many people the favourite argument is: "it can't be tested like
> > medicine." I think that's even a quote in that piece. This is patently
> > untrue and nothing more than a dodge.
>
> > Self mutilators actually have some success, the pain and process of
> > harming ones own flesh creates a whole set of different chemical
> > reactions in the brain. This doesn't cure or prevent, it simply makes
> > your brain discount or ignore the more natural problems.
>
> > On Feb 5, 11:50 am, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Does acupuncture fit in with this group?  I knew a Chinese guy that
> > > swore by scratching.  He used a wooden back scratcher to mutilate
> > > himself and claimed it kept him from getting sick and helped him
> > > relax.  Whatever.  Real smart guy too; owns a chain of Subways.
> > > Workaholic.
>
> > > dj
>
> > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:36 PM, fiddler <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > For some reason, nonsense rules the minds of the uneducated.
> > > > Homeopathy is one of those nonsense topics. It's bad enough that the
> > > > homeopathic promoters don't understand the first thing about medecine,
> > > > biology, chemical interactions, etc., why do otherwise intelligent
> > > > people and organisations lend them credibilty by allowing them to
> > > > entertain this nonsense in a collegiate environment? I would be
> > > > horrified at a university that allows flat-earthers to teach geography
> > > > or creationists to teach biology or a geocentrist to teach astronomy,
> > > > this is just as bad.
>
> > > >http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/02/ums_open_shame_the_center_...
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