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Therapeutic touch (TT) is a mostly secular variant of faith healing, started by Dolores Krieger in the early 1970s. It has no basis in science. The TT practitioner moves his or her hands over the patient’s body, specifically the affected area, without actually touching the patient. TT adherents claim that this directs the flow of chi so that the patient can heal. The practice is based on the belief that living beings have an energy field or aura which extends beyond the surface of the body that can be manipulated by the therapist. No evidence of effectiveness has been found when TT has been tested under controlled conditions.
Pseudoscience
In 1998, Emily Rosa became the youngest person to have a paper accepted by the Journal of the American Medical Association, when she submitted a paper detailing the results of her study which showed that 21 TT practitioners were unable to detect the Human Energy Field which TT claims to exist. In her experiment, she invited these experienced practitioners to put both of their hands through holes in a cardboard screen. She flipped coins to determine whether to hold her hand near, but not touching, their left or right hands. If they were able to "feel" the presence of the body or to "sense" her biofield, then they would be able to tell her where her hand was. All practitioners asserted confidence that they would be able to do this. In fact, in repeated trials, none of them were able to correctly identify the location of her hand at a rate better than the 50-50 chance that random guessing would give them.
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