Bent Spoon award- Cancer Council WA

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    Cancer Council WA nominated for Bent Spoon - Australian Skeptics Inc
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    The Western Australia branch of the Cancer Council has been nominated for the 2024 Bent Spoon award for the promotion of pseudoscience, in this case offering therapies based on the pseudoscience of reiki and reflexology.

    The Cancer Council WA is a registered charity with the stated purpose of working “with our community to reduce the incidence and the impact of cancer” based on “the most solid foundation of evidence available in every practice we embrace”.

    While the Cancer Council nationally reviews “complementary” therapies in its publications, in some cases highlighting doubts about their efficacy, the WA branch offers free complementary therapies to cancer patients and their families, the choice “guided by evidence-based best practice and research”. (None of the other state-based Councils seems to offer these therapies.)

    The WA Council says that “Complementary therapies such as massage, beauty therapies, and reiki, are used in conjunction with conventional medical treatments and are increasingly considered an important part of supportive care, that helps people address a wide range of challenges beyond medical treatment or cancer. They aim to improve general wellbeing, quality of life and can help people to cope with the side effects of cancer.”

    It adds that the therapies it offers have “demonstrated safety for use with people affected by cancer”, which is not surprising if they do nothing that might be considered invasive, let alone a therapy.

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    I told my girlfriend sucking my #### is a beauty therapy after reading above! See result at top.


 
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