Article claiming acupuncture on parents would treat their kids through quantum entanglement has been retracted.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

[ladycatlover]

Article claiming acupuncture on parents would treat their kids through quantum entanglement has been retracted.

https://retractionwatch.com/2019/04...ough-quantum-entanglement-has-been-retracted/

I think the title of this says it all! Well, sometimes we need a bit of a laugh at scientific implausibility don't we?

 

[Wonko]

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.

 

[Diluted-biscuit]

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.

 

[Jonathan Edwards]

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.

 

[rvallee]

The study in question, published in Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion

Moxibustion is a traditional Chinese medicine therapy which consists of burning dried mugwort on particular points on the body.

OK.

 

[Barry]

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.

 

[NelliePledge]

quantum entanglement

sounds like a posh way of saying getting your numbers wrong
is that Mandarin for PACE Trial

 

[Little Bluestem]

Maybe it was meant to be a joke. That is just beyond bizarre.

 

[rvallee]

Maybe it was meant to be a joke. That is just beyond bizarre.

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.

 

[Sid]

WTF? You almost wonder if it was one of those parody papers people sometimes submit to sketchy journals to troll them.

 

[Barry]

Medicine is under some sort of growing pains right now.

Feels more like death throes sometimes.

 

[Little Bluestem]

Feels more like death throes sometimes.

Unfortunately, that can sometimes be the result for the patient.

 

[Samuel]

probably sympathetic magic.

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

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