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the juliest person you know <[log in to unmask]>
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" I think the evidence is that conventional 
medicine can learn a lot from the way confident, 
caring practitioners outside the mainstream 
relate to their clients, how these clients are 
empowered and how they gain in confidence. We 
have *tons* of good,  biologically-plausible, 
testable  evidence of the immense value of touch 
and human connection, emotional and physical.

I think it is vastly more likely that this is 
what is 'working' - when it 'works' .

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK"


Okay.  Is this statement testable?  Can psychological impact be subjected to double blind studies?  If so, how would you design a CST study that differentiates between any physical benefit and any psychological benefit?  

For example, acupuncture has been tested by having some patients receiving real acupuncture and some receiving real acupuncture needles at fake points, and the real acupuncture has won.  

I'm not against either side here (though I have to disclose that I've been to a CST practitioner myself), I'm encouraging a thought experiment.  

Julie Tardos

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