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Probe Newsletter, April 1, 1995 David Zimmerman'snewsletter on science, media,policy and health Vol. IV, No. 4 April l, 1995, New York, NY $5 Flexner Is Byp_assed: AltemativistsInvade U.S. Medicine '' Alternative medicine,'' which aims to fracture and then capture an amalgam of ancient Chinese and Indian methods, claims to America's highly successful scientifically-based medical practice direct ambient energy into patients' bodies and adjust their has not got its nose under the tent, as some scientists and energy balances (See story below). physicians fear. Rather, the whole camel already is inside - • In Boston, Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel snaffling the lunch. hospital have just completed a 3-day postgraduate course called The American Medical Association (AMA) and other pro­ Alternative Medicine: Implications for Clinlcal Practice . It fessional groups that historically have fought quacks are largely was directed by internist David M. Eisenberg, M.D., a student quiescent , even acquiescent. The way thus is open to the most of Eastern medicine, and was supported by the John E. Fetz.er profound directional change since Abraham Flexner, M.D., in Foundation of Kalamazoo, Mich., a $200 million organization. 1910, directed America's doctors away from faith-based em­ Fetzer wants to realign American medical practice away from piricism - and fraud. The Flexner Report directed medical its scientific base, toward a new spiritualism derived from education toward the scientifically-grounded clinical practice ancient oriental religions. The AMA is granting continuing that has made American doctors world leaders in health care. medical education credit to doctors who attended the $450-a ­ The current, carefully directed drive for alternativism, some­ head confere nce, Harvard says. times called complementary care, is undennining Flexnerian • In Bethesda, Md., the National Institutes of Health 's Of­ medicine. It does so in the name of mind/body medicine, fice of Alternative Medicine (OAM) has ju st issued an inch­ holistic medicine, and other vague , w1proven, and hence unsafe thick, 372-page federal report, Alternative Medicine/Expand­ folkloric practices. Quackery, in a word. ing Medical Horizons , that seeks active consideration or recon­ The rigor and rationality of science -based medicine already sideration of virtually every quack remedy and method that has have been seriously damaged. been used and discarded in the last 5,000 years. These include • At New York City's pre-eminent, high-tech heart trans­ shark carti lage, Hoxsey treatments, and herbs for cancer, rolfmg, plant center , at Columbia University, an "energy healer," using continuedon page 4 Heart Transplants Get 'Energy Healing' The most cutting edge facility for cardiac transplant and artificial Cardiac Care. heart research in New York City is the department of Motz said in the interview that she ''keeps [her] hand on the cardiothoracic surgery at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, patient's head throughout most of the operation. This allows on Manhattan's Upper West Side. me to send energy into the patient. Among the many doctors, scientists, and bioengin eers who work in the transplant operating room is Julie A. Motz, M.F.A. Bridge Is Built (Master of Fine Arts). Motz perfonns "energy healing" and ' 'The touch creates a bridge that allows [the energy] to enter needle-less acupuncture on patients before, during , and after the body ." Also, she said, she uses a combination of Chinese operations to remove their diseased natural hearts and install acupuncture, with its 12 energychanels in the body, and Indian artificial ones, and follow-up surgery to replace the artificial Ayurvedic medicine, with its 7 chakras (energy centers), to organs with human cadaver organs. correct energy imbalances in the anesthetized heart bypass "I've done eight operations," Motz said last month by phone, patients. a few weeks after she presented her work at a New York Motz has a private practice in energy healing and acupunc­ Academy of Sciences symposium on Alternative Medicine in continuedon page 6 © 1995 The Probe Newsletter, Inc. follow-up them (an im~ibility), and tell their stories more sympatheti­ cally. Then she would reconsider the piece. TimesFinally Finds: We'll CallYou At Ms., our phone calls weren't returned; the editors were busy in meetings. The publisher of a small, progressive maga­ Pro-lifersGet AB's zine in the Midwest said our expose was gutter journalism of Almost a decade late, the New York Times, in its Sunday the worst sort. He suggestedwe be read out of the profession- Magazine(March 19),has confinned an important story of ours for reasons we still can't fathom. that it refusedto ~blish under our byline. The story, the delay, The TimesMagazine passed on the story, too. and the way in which the Times finally came 'round warrant Frustrated, we set to work to start PROBE to evade this comment. They throw light on the established press's self­ censorship. Meanwhile, a key abortion rights case,Webster v. censorshipof key, but distwbing, storiesthat if publishedmight RHS (ReproductiveHealth Service) blew up in St. Louis, and significantlyadvance America's stalled socialagenda. moved rapidly to the U.S. Supreme Court. Since some of our The story: key research had been conducted at RHS, we sent the manu­ Ten yearsago, we were tipped that Pro-life women often script to our favorite Times editor. He said: seek abortions, sometimes in the very clinics they have pick­ ''Dynamite story!', eted and hanmed. We conducted a wide investigationin the His bosses may have agreed. But they were not in the Midwest,centered in St Louis. We interviewed abortion pro­ market for explosive abortion stories. viders and patients, including some women who had switched, We publishedthe story ourselves, as our pilot issue, on June abruptly, from Pro-life to Pro-choice when they found them­ 15, 1989. selvespregnant- but wished they were not- and then sought Talking to journalistic colleagues through the years, we abortions. We documented the existence of this politically found many had heard the same stories we had about Pro-life explosivebehavior. We said it was hypocritical. women getting abortions. They said their editors told them not The delay: to pursue these leads. Medical WorldNews., a doctors' magazine,published a brief, The confinnation: sanitized account of oµr findings in 1987. But the women's Last month, on March 19, The Times Magazine published magazines and other consumer mags for which we regularly ''An Abortionist's Credo." Obstetrician-gynecologistEliza­ wrote refused it. We think they did not wish to stir up their Pro­ continuedon next page life readers' anger. We tried elsewhere: At the Village Voice,an editor said we Follo1v-Up. .. had failed to expre~ proper compassionfor women trapped by their circwnstances. She told us to go back and reinterview Scifrauder Is Coy: We have received a nice note from Sci.fraudbulletin board honcho Al Higgins, Ph.D., of the State University of New York at Albany. He thanks us for our Index Sent with Issue critique of his venture (PROBE, Feb.). Subscribers will receive the Index for PROBE's Volume III Higgins, a sociologist, writes, "I very much appreciate the with this issue. It includes information on how to order back coverage and enjoyed the [PROBE] drubbing by I. Bernard copies. Cohen and Franz Samelson'' for his misconduct charges on the Our excellent indexer - and colleague - Lynne Lamberg board about Newton and psychologist J~es B. Watson. has prepared a second index, of names, for Vol. m. We'll send What Higg~ appears not to have done is to post our critique you a copy if you will send a SASE, marlced "index,, to the of Scifraud's science bashing, and its proposals to ''burn'' bad post office box listed in the Masthead. science for other scifraudersto see. We wonder why. We're also sending subscribers here the program for the forthcomingNew York Academy of Sciences conference''The Flight from Science and Reason.'' It will be co-chaired by biologistPaul Gross, Ph.D., and mathematicianNonnan Levitt, PROBE Ph.D. Their brash counterattack on science bashers, Higher Editor and Publisher Superstition (Johns Hopkins), which we reviewed here last David R. Zimmerman Production Comptroller year, should be advanced by this conference. The dates are Angela M. Darling Veva H. Zimmerman May 31 - June 2. PROBE readers will enjoy it. Circulation: Tom Gilgut Also enclosed is a letter asking for your help in carrying PROBEis written and publishedindependently, on a monthly PROBE's pro-science, pro-reason - and, we fear, unpopular, schedule. Subscription: $60 per year. Editorial office: 139 anti-populist - message to young readers in high schools, West 13th St., New York City, NY 10011-7856.Phone: 212- colleges and universities. Institutional libraries are broke and 647-0200. For subscriptions, Box 1321, Cathedral Station, cutting back new acquisitions. They need patrons and friends New York,NY 10025. Contentsof this newslettermay not be reproducedwithout penrus.gon. ISSN 1062-4155 to put PROBE on their reading room shelves. MEMBER. NEWSLETTER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION a You can help. We hope you will! - D.R.Z. np Pagel Probe ers to write about and readers to understand human pain and Pro-lifers. need, wherever they occur, thus is fragmented. Each "multiculturalist" journalist (and reader) is trapped in his or continuedfrom preceding page her enclave; democracy is demeaned. beth Karlin, MD., director of the Women's Medical Center, in The Times' stance, and that of the rest of the establishment Madison,Wis., explained that women seek abortions because press, is dangerous from a public policy viewpoint. Abortion, "we don't [at the time] have the resources to be the mother we second only to race, is our most divisive, damaging issue. expect to be" -and thus, why she provides them. In her brief Other policy questions have been side-tracked for decades now essay, she precisely confirmed our earlier findings, including by the abortion impasse and the energy it consumes.
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