Nature publishes an article about alternative therapy

BiasedBayes

Very interesting decision from the one of the leading scientific publications to publish an article about Reiki therapy.

http://www.nature.com/news/consider-all-the-evidence-on-alternative-therapies-1.18547

[Edit: should be Nature publishes an article about alternative therapy]

Sorry, I forgot to reference. The quotes are from Wikipedia.

Also, qi = ki.

Chinese medicine makes a bunch of statements such as that chi flows through meridians. If one is actually intersted in scientific criticism it's useful to directly address an individual practice like Reiki and not meddle it up with other practices that contain a bunch of different assumptions.

1CAE_Jones11y

Based on what I've encountered, I've interpreted the Japanese version as being more broad and metaphysical (the power of friendship, Killing intent), whereas the Chinese version is more like Alchemy: not quite science, but sorta-kinda tries to be (Fengshui and TCM, but also conservation of energy and such). There is considerable overlap, since ki is literally qi filtered through Japanese culture, but I generally expect people who talk about qi to be more interested in the Alternative Medicine route, whereas Ki indicates one or more of anime fan / Aikido practitioner / practitioner of Japanese spirituality. (These are more probabilities than hard categories; Reiki is a good counterexample.)

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