PS. ‘daijiyobu’ sounds soooo Japanese, hahaha~ ???????????!^_^;

When I did my BA at CUNY-Lehman in Physical Education (yes I am a dumb jock, in that sense, though the department itself was by then called “exercise and sport science;” no I am not a dumb jock, I graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Lehman College’s honors program) the course I took was “Biomechanics and Kinesiology.”

There was absolutely no woo-woo in that course. It was biophysics basically, from the cellular generation of movement level to the large macroscopic organism level.

Regarding AK’s origins, I once heard {and I’ve never been able to clarify this rumor, yet this may reveal the ‘mind f-ing’ [get my drift] that AK is all about} that something like AK was used by the British Special Services to interrogate WWII German prisoners — something about ‘the body doesn’t lie.’

The king of AK, of course, is John Diamond, MD author of a book of that title (see http://www.amazon.com/Your-Body-Doesnt-John-Diamond/dp/0446358479).

AK is used as a diagnositc tool in Emotional Freedom Therapy – surprise, surprise. EFT is a regular carnival of woo.

PS. Please forgive my English, since I am not a native speaker. I try my best =)

A fond memory: I remember Dr. Perle handing me Hyman’s [?] criticism of AK (similar to http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/ideomotor.html) in fall 2000.

The funny thing is that here Perle is offering a critical view of AK…

while we were passing his office to pick up Goodheart’s AK text that was required for a UBCNM ‘manipulation’ course taught by Dr. Ferraro, who had the office next door!

Reminds me of those two guys in the film Brazil fighting over that desk shared through a wall.

I find Dr. Perle’s action there both bold and absurd: it didn’t begin my criticism of naturopathy…but it was important. It was bold because here is someone inside the College of Naturopathic Medicine [then] as an instructor criticizing the very pseudoscience crappola naturopathy finds no problem calling “scientific medicine” and ‘able to survive scientific scrutiny.’ It was absurd because there’s that old adage about ‘biting the hand that feeds you,’ and a certain flavor of hypocrisy still taints that memory.

Later, Dr. Perle would coauthor a paper (see http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1185558) stating: “vitalism [...] although there is a long historical legacy of vitalism, and although it continues to be a feature within many contemporary belief systems, there really can be no compromise on its inclusion as a defining principle of chiropractic. It was precisely the rejection of vitalism in the 18th Century and the emerging understanding [...] of biological mechanisms that marks one of the watershed moments in the evolution of science. Chiropractic can choose to retain its vitalistic component only if it chooses to operate completely outside the scientific healthcare community. Vitalism does not require any further or more extensive analysis before rejecting it. To reject vitalism is to simply to announce that one accepts the conventional view of biology similar to the way one accepts the convention view of cosmology by rejecting a geocentric universe.”

Yet, presently, UBCNM calls their naturopathy scientific (see http://www.bridgeport.edu/ub/nm/Today's_Nat.htm) while requiring vitalism (see http://www.bridgeport.edu/ub/nm/Six_Prithree.htm) while vitalism is profoundly scientifically ejected.

So I left UBCNM realizing that naturopathy is an ‘unethical sectarian pseudoscience.’

-r.c.

– [DC UBCNM; {"a member of the adjunct faculty, clinical sciences at the University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine" and of the "University of Bridgeport, Alumni Board of Directors"}(from her bio. at http://www.demarcochiropractic.com/about_us.htm)] –

of Black Rock Holistic Health Center who states about AK [at http://www.demarcochiropractic.com/kinesiology.htm:

"[AK] draws on the principles of traditional Chinese medicine and can evaluate body function through the muscle-meridian relationship. It can also establish connections between imbalances, put them in order of priority and determine the most effective treatment [...] it can, for example: increase energy and vitality, prevent illness, improve posture, relieve physical pain and tension, defuse stress and the causes of stress, heal traumas, enhance brain function and co-ordination, discover individual nutritional needs, identify food and environmental sensitivities, find and clear underlying causes of energy blocks/imbalances/diseases [...] as the owner and founder of the my goal and mission is to integrate the treatment of chiropractic, acupuncture, nutrition, physical therapy, and homeopathy in order to provide the patient with the highest degree of success in treating their acute and chronic pain [she also is an Upledger craniosacral therapist].”

Quite a DIAGNOSTIC and therapeutic arsenal: but, since the meridians are myths, and the vitalistic / animatistic / animistic energy she speaks of (chi or qi) is a myth, and homeopathy and craniosacral therapy are farcical delusions…YOU judge how sound this arsenal is. I’m not going to mention the chiropractic, since I live a minute from the UB campus, and those guys go ape over criticism…