A nine-year-old schoolgirl single-handedly cooks up a science-fair experiment that ends up debunking (揭穿......的真相) a widely practiced medical treatment. Emily Rosa’s target was a practice known as therapeutic (治疗的) touch (TT for short), whose advocates manipulate patients’ "energy field" to make them feel better and even, say some, to cure them of various ills. Yet Emily’s test shows that these energy fields can’t be detected, even by trained TT practitioners (行医者). Obviously mindful of the publicity value of the situation, Journal editor George Lundberg appeared on TV to declare, "Age doesn’t matter. It’s good science that matters, and this is good science." Emily’s mother Linda Rosa, a registered nurse, has been campaigning against TT for nearly a decade. Linda first thought about TT in the late 80s, when she learned it was on the approved list for continuing nursing education in Colorado. Its 100,000 trained practit
A. TT has been in existence for decades.
B. Many patients were cured by therapeutic touch.
C. TV therapists are often employed by leading hospitals.
D. More than 100,000 people are undergoing TV treatment.
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