Feng Shui for California Nurses?
May 28, 2009
This story will eventually appear in Skeptical Inquirer magazine in its entirety.
In the meantime, go here for a taste of the craziness in California…
This story will eventually appear in Skeptical Inquirer magazine in its entirety.
In the meantime, go here for a taste of the craziness in California…
Hollywood, CA
James Underdown has been Executive Director of the Center for Inquiry-Los Angeles since 1999. He is also the Founder and Chair of the Independent Investigations Group, a team of inquirers who look into paranormal, pseudo-scientific, and extraordinary claims. He is also the creator of the Steve Allen Theater at CFI-L.A. Jim has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows including Hannity and Colmes, Penn and Teller's Bullshit, History's Mysteries, Proof Positive, and the Oprah Winfrey Show. He is a regular Skeptical Sunday guest on the SETI Institute's Are We Alone? radio show/podcast. His many pre-CFI endeavors include writing and directing short films (A Day in the Life of Frank Sinatra, The Test, Dear Father), and directing his stage play, Party of 13, a secular re-telling of the Last Supper. Jim also toured midwest comedy clubs as the Poet Laureate of Calumet City, IL.
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#1 asanta on Sunday May 31, 2009 at 7:11pm
I am a California RN and I am ashamed at the amount of woo that is being taught as science and therapy.
It started with the whole ‘therapeutic touch’ scam and branched out to acupuncture/pressure and herbal therapies. It is almost IMPOSSIBLE for me to go to a conference without seeing a class in woo, dressed as science. Nurses at work talk about their acupuncturist and chiropractic adjustments, the vitamins and herbal medications they take and the latest feel good bad tasting magic juice. One nurse had a vaccine reaction, and won’t get another vaccination (it sounds like a contamination), but if she’d gone to a favorite restaurant and gotten food poisoning, I’m sure she would have chalked it up to bad luck and gone back. The doctors I work with are not immune.As someone who subscribes to many research journals and love to read about the latest studies, when I ask for the studies purporting to show the results they claim, and I can’t find, they resort to the “because I ordered it” line. While I love my profession, I am becoming very disillusioned.