A woman called the lab today wanting to
establish a major collaboration between my institute and, well, I’m not sure
who. She said her name quickly at the beginning and neither she nor I are
native french speakers.
She dived into some spiel about cancer patients
and horses and quantum physics. I should obviously be interested. I do work in
a cancer research institute, after all, don’t I? Well, horses get cancer, and
they’ve treated them, and their high frequency helps them get better. If I’m a
cancer researcher, I should know all about this latest research. So we could
apply that to patients. We could put the patients, when they’re not in the
hospital, with the horses, and the low frequency of the patients which is
keeping them sick, could be corrected by the horses and make them better.
Er, come again? Frequency? What frequency?
The energy frequency.
Ah, what energy frequency?
It’s quantum physics! You do have a notion
about quantum physics, don’t you?
Indeed, I do have some idea of what quantum
physics is about, and that’s precisely why I’d like a more coherent explanation
here.
The horses have high frequency. They have
good energy. Cancer patients have low frequency, bad energy.
Okaay...
The horses can transfer their energy to the
patients and slow their cancer. It’s the immune system. Energy boosts the
immune system. It’s quantum physics!
Like, duh!
Could you send me some references there, so
I could study the issue before responding?
No, of course not. This has never been
done. That’s why I’m calling, to start this project.
In another conversation, I may have been
interested in hearing some details about how the caller imagined this research.
It is well established that a robust immune system helps fight cancer, and many
things can boost the immune system. Most notably (and neglectedly), well-being
is good for immune function, so whatever we can do for patients’ well-being,
whether it be sending them to the local thermal spa (in an actual ongoing
research project), to having a hairdresser at the hospital, to keeping their
social networks intact, we’re in favor of it.
But the way the caller browbeat me with her
magic words, brandishing Quantum Physics! as if that made everything very
scientific and I was quite dull not to grasp the obvious, the way she evoked
real science (immune function) through the voodoo of “energy transfer” and “frequencies”,
made me run.
Drop the smoke and mirrors and we can have
a real discussion.
3 comments:
It's a new health care strategy that doesn't require us to spend money - just go sit on a horse a while & you'll be healed! Boy I wish that really worked, but I wouldn't have taken her seriously either. For one thing, she SHOULD have SOMETHING in writing that coherently describes what she wants to research.
there may be something to it . . . but what and why are questions that leap out and i wish it was all this simple but it isn't and you . . . well nancy you know this better than most . . . . steven
I'm impressed with your patience.
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