"Is Reiki real? Does it matter whether Reiki is real? And whose definition of real are we working with?"
Good essay by @jordan_kisner that captures the dilemmas of pseudoscientific woo, placebo effects on subjective wellness, and we define what's "real."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/04/reiki-cant-possibly-work-so-why-does-it/606808/ …
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Replying to @psychunseen @jordan_kisner
A much criticized piece. See, for example, this analysis by
@gorskon:https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/no-editors-of-the-atlantic-reiki-does-not-work/ …1 reply 2 retweets 13 likes -
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@gorskon just posted it himself. thanks, though I don't see the author making the claims that are being suggested. as she suggests, wellness interventions boil down to "Why do we have a problem accepting when somebody says, 'I feel better; that helped'?"2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes -
Replying to @psychunseen @CaulfieldTim and
in the end, the author does perhaps over-speculate that reiki might be able to "help the body" to heal, but she also questions what healing means ("healed of what?"), if not explicitly mentioning the difficulty of that question in someone who is not ill.
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