NHS is accused of 'endorsing quackery' after posting job ad for a Japanese energy healer who will treat cancer patients alongside chemo

NHS is accused of 'endorsing
quackery' after posting job ad for a Japanese energy healer who will treat cancer patients alongside chemo

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/...ckery-advertising-Japanese-energy-healer.html
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Experts slammed the trust for introducing the 'debunked' alternative therapy, claiming it does little more than provide the placebo effect.

Professor Edzard Ernst, chair of complementary medicine at the University of Exeter, told MailOnline: 'It is hard to think of an alternative therapy that is less plausible than reiki.

'It has been debunked many times and does not work beyond placebo.

'That the NHS should [endorse] such quackery in the midst of a funding crisis is frankly appalling.'

Michael Marshall, project director of the anti-pseudoscience charity Good Thinking Society, said reiki is 'completely anti-scientific'.

He told the Daily Telegraph: 'There are no energy fields around the human body that can be manipulated by reiki practitioners or by anybody else.

'That’s not how the human body works and the NHS shouldn’t be endorsing it, even indirectly via a charity, because it can lead to some people being put in harm’s way.'

Mr Marshall said patients can get the same emotional support provided by reiki healers elsewhere without having to deal with someone 'who believes in magic'.

The NHS admitted there is no scientific backing for providing reiki on the health service

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Comment: My guess is Reiki involves a hypnotic or hypnotic-like state where one is very suggestible.

 

Zero difference between this and the biopsychosocial ideology. Once the idea of pseudoscience has been accepted, they are all accepted. Just think about those energy fields as the relationship between the mind and the body, or whatever, it's just as real and pertinent.

 

If only they'd say that about CBT!