"Experts in this complementary therapy (Reiki) recognized by the WHO argue that it can help minimize the effects of the disease," shamelessly publish the newspaper The vanguard.
And also that it can help combat COVID-19.
Pseudoscience in media
"Reiki is a complementary therapy recognized by the World Health Organization, which helps alleviate stress, anguish, anxiety and physical pain," it is stated from a mass media outlet that, presumably, is intended to inform its readers.
"Reiki increases our immune system and that is why it helps a lot to minimize the effects caused by Covid-19." Neither.
All this is false. Neither Reiki is recognized by the WHO (It only states that there are people who use it, but does not say anything about its effectiveness or usefulness, and even includes it in the set of faith-based treatments), nor has it been shown to have any effect on health.
For a national newspaper to make such statements is comparable to stating that extraterrestrials exist and visit us often, or that the Earth is flat.
It is grotesque that at this point there are still media outlets that publish this content and do not immediately become part of a kind of blacklist of unreliable media. Because it is not the first time that this newspaper, La Vanguardia, splash up to the knee in the quagmire of pseudosciences, as Pere Estupinyà already denounced.
Reiki, feng shui, ayurveda or traditional Chinese medicine are, as a whole, a scam. Even a simple nine year old girl He demonstrated it with a simple experiment. But the media we should trust publishes such lies for the simple fact that they sell, or to respect each other's beliefs.
As a politician who once proposed to build a landing strip for ufos simply because many people said they were seeing them, as I explain below:
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The news
No, Reiki cannot help you in any way against COVID-19 because it is a scam.
was originally published in
Xataka Science
by
Sergio Parra
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