You don’t have to be a scientist to use the scientific method, it’s a way of thinking anyone can use. In 1996, eleven-year-old Emily Rosa became the youngest person to have a research paper published in a peer-reviewed medical journal — the April 1996 Journal of the American Medical Association. Rosa performed a study testing the claimed med ability of twenty-one Therapeutic Touch practitioners to detect and manipulate energy or aura. She was nine when she ran the experiment and eleven at publication. For the study, Rosa sat behind a screen and had Therapeutic Touch practitioners place gloved hands through holes in the screen. Rosa tossed a coin to decide if she would place her own hand close to the practitioner’s left or right hand. Her hypothesis was that if the practitioners could feel and manipulate energy or auras, they could feel her aura when her has was next to theirs, and should be able to identify which hand was closest to Rosa’s. The results showed the practitioner’s responses were no better than guessing. Rosa concluded the practitioners were not able to detect an energy field .
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