Talk:Emily Rosa

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This is pretty sad. Emily Rosa played a minor part in a fabricated report of a supposed study of Therapeutic Touch. As a science fair project it was unlikely to meet the usual criteria of being primarily the work of a student due to the acknowledged participation of adults in recruitment and statistical analyses. The data reported in the JAMA article, when properly analyzed, actually contradict the much heralded conclusions reported in the JAMA article.

Two pieces:

Nursing Philosophy: "Dialogue Transgressing the boundaries of science: Glazer, scepticism, and Emily's experiment" Thomas Cox. April, 2004, Vol. 5 Issue 1, p75-78, 4p

and

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine: "A nurse-statistician reanalyzes data from the Rosa therapeutic touch study" Thomas Cox. Aliso Viejo: Jan/Feb 2003. Vol. 9, Iss. 1; p. 58 (7 pages)

demonstrate that the author's published JAMA data do not support the over-reaching conclusions offered in the same article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drtcbear (talk • contribs) 02:33, 15 March 2006

Just adding links to articles I will create but are currently orphaned: Dorothy Straight, Souza Barra Teixeira, Bertha Wood. ''[[User:Kitia|Kitia]] 23:39, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

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I haven't read the book "Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion", but I did read Emily Rosa's contribution, titled "Growing Up Godless: How I Survived Amateur Secular Parenting". The title is mostly in jest, I'd say.

I think I'll add a mention of this to the article sometime soon.

- Misha

216.254.12.114 (talk) 17:19, 8 May 2008 (UTC)