A large experiment has demonstrated that therapeutic touch practitioners can measure the body's "energy field."

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Large, well-designed experiments, including a famous study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1998, have shown that practitioners of therapeutic touch cannot reliably detect a person's energy field. This study involved practitioners attempting to detect the field through a barrier, and they performed no better than would be expected by chance.

A Large Experiment Has Demonstrated That Therapeutic Touch Practitioners Can