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Article claiming acupuncture on parents would treat their kids through quantum entanglement has been retracted. Retraction Watch, April 2019

Discussion in 'Other health news and research' started by ladycatlover, Apr 8, 2019.

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    ladycatlover Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    ladycatlover, Apr 8, 2019
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    Surely in order to treat your child using quantum entanglement you'd need another seemingly identical child, and to treat them?

    I'm also not quite sure how, in conventional terms, you'd tell the 2 children apart.

    So you would never know what you were doing, if you were in fact doing it.
     
    Wonko, Apr 8, 2019
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    Begs the terrible question of what else you’d be doing to your kids via quantum entanglement if this were true.....

    Thank goodness it’s BS.
     
    Diluted-biscuit, Apr 8, 2019
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    Our Schrodinger cat brought a rabbit in the house today that was alive and dead at the same time. Fortunately I chose to observe a live rabbit and let it free.
     
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    OK.
     
    rvallee, Apr 8, 2019
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    The thing I do like about this is the word 'entanglement'. It just sounds so apt for so many things ME.

    ETA: As in ME science I mean.
     
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    quantum entanglement

    sounds like a posh way of saying getting your numbers wrong
    is that Mandarin for PACE Trial :whistle::whistle:
     
    NelliePledge, Apr 8, 2019
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    Maybe it was meant to be a joke. That is just beyond bizarre.
     
    Little Bluestem, Apr 14, 2019
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    If the British Medical Journal can publish a paper on a "treatment" created by a guy who diagnoses with Tarot cards and consists of yelling at your symptoms to make them go away... at this point the ridiculous has been so fully normalized that it was most likely seriously.

    Medicine is under some sort of growing pains right now. Expect more absurdity before this is over.
     
    rvallee, Apr 14, 2019
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    WTF? You almost wonder if it was one of those parody papers people sometimes submit to sketchy journals to troll them.
     
    Sid, Apr 14, 2019
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    Feels more like death throes sometimes.
     
    Barry, Apr 14, 2019
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    Unfortunately, that can sometimes be the result for the patient.
     
    Little Bluestem, Apr 15, 2019
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    probably sympathetic magic.

    example: walnuts for your brain because it looks like a brain.

    example: causing/curing diseases by cognitions about those diseases.
     
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