I'm very encouraged to see that RNs and NPs are still committed to scientific medicine. TT proponents may dismiss your points and suggest that Randi's $1 million challenge is beneath them. But the plain fact is that if the existence of a human energy field would revolutionize what we know about the world. TT proponents have a moral responsibility to substantiate their claims with scientific rigor. Not just a million dollars, but a Nobel prize is waiting for someone who can really do it.

Tim Gorski, MD, FACOG

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Linda Pearson's November 2001 Editor's Memo, 'Unruffling' the Mystique of Therapeutic Touch, garnered a variety of responses: