Hustlers convention
After a disappointingly sensible run of healthcare press releases along came one plugging Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life- a festival of woo.
The best thing about this one isn’t the puff for converted scientist Dr David Hamilton, whose website cites a study published in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine as evidence that “Therapeutic Touch” therapy works, even though the study appears to have employed the Patrick Holford Petri dish method. It isn’t the introduction to neuroplastiticy (a “new cutting-edge brain science”) where the word “learning” would have done. It isn’t the mention of John C Parkin’s charmingly-titled book (though admittedly swearing therapy probably would have some benefits).
It’s the list of reasons to go. According to Number Five on the list, this event is for anyone who is “always on some kind of self-improvement programme”. If one makes a hobby of attending these things then it’s likely that one more couldn’t hurt, and with “It Can’t Hurt” being a central principle of CAM, there probably won’t be many dissatisfied customers.
