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- From: lippard@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (James J. Lippard)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Kinesiology - how I heard about it
- Message-ID: <13AUG199211504576@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 18:50:00 GMT
- References: <11AUG199206310035@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu> <zlsiida.62@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> <1992Aug13.152334.13177@colorado.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug13.152334.13177@colorado.edu>, gordon@tramp.Colorado.EDU (GORDON ALLEN R) writes...
- >>>done the above experiment, somewhat modified, in a double blind manner.
- >
- >>Please describe for us a single, repeatable experiment that will allow
- >>us to "test" something meaningful using AK. If possible, I'd like an experiment
- >>that involves "pulling down the arm" when it is extended straight out,
- >>palm down. I'd like to do some 'muscle testing'.
- >
- >Do you think that you can do these tests without training? If so, there's lots
- >of books out. Its simply not that simple. Then there is the matter of
- >interpreting the results. People go to school and receives long hours of
- >training to do tests and many more hours (weeks, years) to learn how to
- >interpret them. It doesn't matter whether or not its for AK or for different
- >medical tests by by/for physicians. In spite of their apparent objectivity,
- >medical tests are misinterpreted all of the time. Good AK does not simply
- >rely on one test but all the results obtained by all of the tests and the
- >practitioner's interaction'w with his/her client.
- >
- >If you want to learn, take some classes.
-
- What schools teach AK? What medical or scientific research journals have
- published articles demonstrating the reliability and validity of AK?
-
- Jim Lippard Lippard@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
- Dept. of Philosophy Lippard@ARIZVMS.BITNET
- University of Arizona
- Tucson, AZ 85721
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