“Healers” who wave their hands over the patient and claim to transmit some kind of undefined energy – want to find out whether their efforts increase the number of white blood cells in cancer sufferers.
The trial is the brainchild of hospital departmental manager Angela Buxton whose son died of leukemia. She is on record as saying, “Science has not caught up with how it [healing] works. Anecdotal evidence shows it works but we need hard evidence.”
Advocates of the trial believe that “healing” might somehow boost the number of immune system white blood cells in the body. Others have dismissed the efforts as pseudoscientific claptrap and a waste of money.
You decide. Healing: Benefit or Bollocks?