Well done. One of the best books on discussing "pseudoscience" is Sagan's Demon Haunted World. In his work he provides a few simple tests to determine if a new theory has merit or is simply wishful thinking. One of the key aspects is repeatability.
If energy medicine is real, and I suspect there are positive aspects - see a Canadian study on EFT (which is trumped up CBT) - of the human mind/body relationship which should be studied in more depth, then somehow in 2000 years of medical learnings we overlooked it. Unlikely.
Pert is one of the fallen who traded a brilliant career for a trip "down the rabbit hole".
The whole chinese medicine is based on energy medicine! They have been practising it for thousands of years!
Were they all wrong from the begining? Unlikely!
Western medicine is just at the start of understanding this new alternative, but of course, it needs time!
"Not within a thousand years would man ever fly,” Wilbur Wright
The idea that people cannot persist in errors or unscientific belivings for thousands of years is rather naïf. In ancien Egypt the brain was considered almost useless, and that for thousands years... Egyptians where as dogmatic as Chinises, but they disappeared. The only force of chinise medicine is that there is at least one billion belivers. It is like miracles and saints: ridicules in XXI century, but as long as there will be faithful supporters, they will continue to be produced and witnessed.
By the way, here is a review, dated 1999:
http://scholar.google.com/schola...F-8&
oi=scholarr
It is interesting in that it points out that, in experiments with stricter verifications, the presumed magnetic effects desappears...
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