carrying on from the last post...

saw this in the comments

It's good to finally see this debate. The media have allowed the alternative medicine industry to propagate false claims and squeeze money from an uninformed public. The Irish Times has been just as uncritical as every other media outlet. A recent Health supplement printed without challenge the ridiculous claim that reiki is explained by quantum mechanics. Genuine science is unfortunately confined to a single weekly page. Alternative medicine is the greatest health rip-off in this country and yet The Irish Times is not covering it.
David H Ireland

i remember that article too, it had an argument that basically said..

''quantum mechanics tells us all molecules vibrate (presumably means the z.p.e) at a basic level and it's this universal energy that is manipulated in reiki''

..and yes while paraphrasing, no i'm not being unfair it really was that stupid. non sequitur anyone? evidence?

though what do you expect from the IT health supplement, it's full of lifestyle crap and self help mumbo jumbo. and the science page, jaysus, would be a lot better if the good doctor william reveille could spare us his periodic meditations on religion and richard dawkins