All of the posts on this blog were written by an MD – me.

Your anecdotes are worthless – see here: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=33

For example, most throat infections will get better by themselves without treatment. Any treatment that appears anecdotally to be good for everything is likely good for nothing – it’s just revealing the futility of anecdotes.

Whenever anyone appeals to the AMA bogeyman, you can be sure they have no idea what they are talking about. The AMA does not regulate medicine in any way.

Arguments from authority and appeals to conspiracies are not compelling.

Some of my personal results:

1. Recurring low back pain NEVER returned and I have not had an instance in several years since treatments.

2. I had a case of strep throat (ok, undiagnosed by your trusted AMA drug pushers), at least I had puss-filled blisters on my tonsils, a fever and a primary care physician who couldn’t see me or write me a perscription for THREE DAYS (I called on Monday and was offered a Thursday morning appointment). Having not used the Papimi for a couple of months, I went in that day, got treated on the Nurse’s LUNCH HOUR (try that with your MD), and the blisters were GONE in the morning without drugs or anything else except healthy eating.

3. Eczema on my thumb approx. 1/2 sq. inch, during the time of my treatments became COMPLETELY asymptomatic and healthy skin covered the site. It has come back however, it did not re-emerge until months after treatments.

The ama is poisoning you and half of your posts look like they were posted by MD’s or Pharmacy execs. Do some research: Rife, Tesla, Pappas (Whose uncle invented the PAP smear and who is a GENIUS, not a scam artist. Scam artists are abundant in our conventional medical establishments right here in the good ol’ USA! Enjoy your flat earth and your anti-depressants.

I was trying to suggest radionics (Abrams’ invention) as an “abandoned Alt Med modality” on PalMD’s blog….

…and then I found that it isn’t abandoned.

Apparently the practitioners are often also homoeopaths. Hmmm.

Just the other day, I saw a Kevin Trudeau book for sale at my college. There’s also a free magazine called Conscious Choice. I got one because it bills itself as a progressive, pro-atheist magazine. I had to chuck it because it was FULL of alternative and pseudo nonsense.

The area has the highest concentration of college graduates in the entire country, but yet quackery thrives here of all places. I just don’t get it.

This young fellow was convinced that his hands could become so filled with energy, if he learned a certain technique, that he would be able to direct this energy and it would help others’ bodies heal.

I tried to pursue the nature of this energy. How was it measured? You could feel it in your hands. Was there a way to show it was effective? Yes, the teacher made objects move. And in his training he had….maybe….made something move but wasn’t totally sure. How close did you have to be…was there a 1/x-squared drop-off? No drop-off. In fact, it was possible to move an object on the other side of the Earth. Was it only good on Earth or could the practitioner move objects on the Moon? My wife stopped my questioning at this point because she thought, incorrectly, that I was making fun of him. In fact, I was pursuing an understanding of this energy & the young fellow, I think, understood that.

My wife has another friend who spent 25,000 dollars about 7 years ago for some computer & program that you hooked to some parts of your body and then, as you sat there, would list body functions and a number [to tell you the current function level of the function]. My wife did it…of course her friend knew her frailties beforehand. But the machine was “diagnosing” the underlying problems of those frailties. With this information, my wife’s friend could then use her knowledge of alternative health care to suggest a course to better health.

These stories are typical here and also in Oregon. I don’t know about the rest of the world. But the fact that in, at least, one of the homes of energy medicine the hometown paper is sounding an alarm may prompt some of the bright young people to think twice about energy medicine. It is SO popular here.

I think the Seattle Times series is non-threatening in that it focuses on true con-artists….indicted at that. But the implications for the common energy-healer can not be unaddressed in the minds of the reader. This series is a step in the right direction in a place that needs more food for thought for those who are drawn into the energy healing fields.