Wednesday, February 21, 2024

An article about Reiki vanished from the Mayo Clinic website – after being criticized in another article at Science Based Medicine


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At a web site for the Mayo Clinic there was an article by Kenneth Rooth on February 8, 2024  titled My journey from energy work skeptic to Reiki practitioner. It was discussed by Steven Novella at Science Based Medicine on February 14, 2024 in another article titled Mayo Clinic Promotes Reiki. Mayo Clinic has removed the article.  

 

Dr. Novella mentioned but did not link to still another article by Jonathan Jarry at the McGill Office for Science and Society on February 19, 2020 titled Should we take Reiki seriously? And on March 22, 2020 I blogged about Can Reiki reduce public speaking anxiety? and linked to Mr. Jarry’s article. Both that article and my blog post obey Betteridge’s Law of Headlines, which states:

 

“Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”

 

The image was adapted from this one at Openclipart.

 


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