The 300 delegates voted to supplement the world church’s Health Ministries department guidelines with a list of questionable treatments and therapies officially “discouraged” by the Adventist Church — among them hypnosis, magnet therapy, untested herbal remedies and pendulum diagnosis.

OK – I draw the line here when a religious institution puts hypnosis in the same sentence as ‘untested herbal remedies and pendulum diagnosis’. Come on folks, there are something like over 10,000 scientific papers in the 20th century alone on hypnosis and its effects. I actually have respect for the health institutions this organization has sponsored – but I believe here that they are responding to superstitious 19th century prescriptions against hypnosis (loosing control to the devil and all that rubbish) rather than the ‘evidence’ based claimed for their selection of treatments in the rest of the article.

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