Charlie Goldsmith, energy healer, article.
Paper on testing him at a teaching hospital: Feasibility of Energy Medicine in a Community Teaching Hospital: An Exploratory Case Series, at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4485888/.
Results: Twenty-four of 32 patients requested relief from pain. Of 50 reports of pain, 5 (10%) showed no improvement; 4 (8%), slight improvement; 3 (6%), moderate improvement; and 38 (76%), marked improvement. Twenty-one patients had issues other than pain. Of 29 non–pain-related problems, 3 (10%) showed no, 2 (7%) showed slight, 1 (4%) showed moderate, and 23 (79%) showed marked improvement. Changes during EM sessions were usually immediate.
Conclusions: Most patients experienced marked, immediate improvement of symptoms associated with their chief complaint. Substantial practicality issues must be addressed to implement EM clinically in a hospital, however.
There is a new TV show on Goldsmith, in which he demonstrates his abilities on various patients, primarily where the basic problem is pain caused by various serious medical conditions, such as severe psoriatic arthritis as an example. Over the years he has been evaluated by numerous medical doctors, who acknowledge his abilities but have no idea how he is doing it. There seems to be no way to explain medically and scientifically what the mechanism is. The dramatic and lasting results go way beyond any possible effects of suggestion or placebo effect. The hundreds of patients don't care - it works for them. He receives no money for his services.
It remains the materialists' problem how to claim he is a fraud.
Paper on testing him at a teaching hospital: Feasibility of Energy Medicine in a Community Teaching Hospital: An Exploratory Case Series, at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4485888/.
Results: Twenty-four of 32 patients requested relief from pain. Of 50 reports of pain, 5 (10%) showed no improvement; 4 (8%), slight improvement; 3 (6%), moderate improvement; and 38 (76%), marked improvement. Twenty-one patients had issues other than pain. Of 29 non–pain-related problems, 3 (10%) showed no, 2 (7%) showed slight, 1 (4%) showed moderate, and 23 (79%) showed marked improvement. Changes during EM sessions were usually immediate.
Conclusions: Most patients experienced marked, immediate improvement of symptoms associated with their chief complaint. Substantial practicality issues must be addressed to implement EM clinically in a hospital, however.
There is a new TV show on Goldsmith, in which he demonstrates his abilities on various patients, primarily where the basic problem is pain caused by various serious medical conditions, such as severe psoriatic arthritis as an example. Over the years he has been evaluated by numerous medical doctors, who acknowledge his abilities but have no idea how he is doing it. There seems to be no way to explain medically and scientifically what the mechanism is. The dramatic and lasting results go way beyond any possible effects of suggestion or placebo effect. The hundreds of patients don't care - it works for them. He receives no money for his services.
It remains the materialists' problem how to claim he is a fraud.
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