首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
A nine-year-old schoolgirl single-handedly cooks up a science-fair experiment that ends up debunking (揭穿......的真相)a widely pract
A nine-year-old schoolgirl single-handedly cooks up a science-fair experiment that ends up debunking (揭穿......的真相)a widely pract
admin
2010-06-30
93
问题
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 Lund- berg 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 deduction in Colorado. Its 100,000 trained practitioners (48,000 in the U. S. ) don’ t even touch their patients. Instead they waved their hands a few inches from the patient’s body, pushing energy fields around until they’re in “balance.” TT advocates say these manipulations can help heal wounds, relieve pain and reduce fever. The claims are taken seriously enough that TT therapists are frequently hired by leading hospitals, at up to $ 70an hour, to smooth patients, energy, sometimes during surgery.
Yet Rosa could not find any evidence that it works. To provide such proof, TT therapists would have to sit down for independent testing--something they haven’t been eager to do, even though James Randi has offered more than $1 million to anyone who can demonstrate the existence of a human energy field. (He’s had one taker so far. She failed. )A skeptic might conclude that TT practitioners are afraid to lay their beliefs on the line. But who could turn down an innocent fourth-grader? Says Emily. “I think they didn’t take me very seriously because I’m a kid.”
The experiment was straightforward: 21 TT therapists stuck their hands, palms up, through a screen. Emily held her own hand over one of theirs--left or right---and the practitioners had to say which hand it was. When the results were recorded, they’d done no better than they would have by simply guessing. If there was an energy field, they couldn’t feel it.
The purpose of Emily Rosa’s experiment was _________.
选项
A、to see why TI’ could work the way it did
B、to find out how TT cured patients’ illnesses
C、to test whether she could sense the human energy field
D、to test whether a human energy field really existed
答案
D
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://www.kaotiyun.com/show/2VJd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语四级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语四级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
Culturalglobalization,formany,meansWesternizationorAmericanization.Animportantdistinctionconcerningtoday’scultural
AnswerQuestions71to80byreferringtothepassagesonthefollowingpages.AnswereachquestionbychoosingA,B,orCandm
AnswerQuestions71to80byreferringtothepassagesonthefollowingpages.AnswereachquestionbychoosingA,B,orCandm
YouwillhearaninterviewwithStevenCasey,onhumanfactorsindesign.Asyoulisten,answerthequestionsorcompletetheno
ThehistoryofresponsestotheworkoftheartistSandroBotticelli(1444-1510)suggeststhatwidespreadappreciationbycrit
A、Specialpaths.B、Resurfacedhighways.C、Moreparkingspace.D、Betterstreetlighting.A
Juniorcolleges/non-degreeprograms.
Women’smindsworkdifferentlyfrommen’s.Atleast,thatiswhatmostmenareconvincedof.Psychologistsviewthesubjectei
Quantumwillstillbeonairasthelastprogramsofitarestillinthemakingandaretobeshownasscheduled.
Everyoneofuslivesandworksonasmallpartoftheearth’ssurface,movesinasmallcircle,andoftheseacquaintancesknows
随机试题
B1字节可以检测出上一帧信号到底发生了多少个字节的误码。()
蒸发操作实际上是在间壁两侧分别有蒸汽冷凝和液体沸腾的传热过程。()
为小儿进行大量不保留灌肠时,灌肠筒内液面应高于肛门
胎儿出生时体内贮存的铁为
孕妇感染风疹后引起胎儿畸形,这种传播病原体的方式被称为
( )是指债权人向债务人发出的一种支付命令书,命令他在约定的期限内支付一定的款项给第三人或者持票人。
留存收益是企业内源性股权筹资的主要方式,下列各项中,属于该种筹资方式特点的有()。
某卷烟厂和C卷烟批发企业均为增值税一般纳税人,卷烟厂主要生产卷烟和雪茄烟。2014年4月生产经营情况如下:(1)进口一批烟丝,支付货款28万元,运抵我国境内输入地点起卸前发生运费、保险费合计2万元,关税税率为40%,取得海关填发的专用税款缴款
下列哪些行为构成非法经营罪?()
一个TCP报文段的数据部分最多为()字节。
最新回复
(
0
)