From David Connolly
The BBC’s teletext Sci-Tech news item for Thursday 20 March referred to your magazine as follows: “According to the Â鶹´«Ã½ magazine, repair enzymes which heal the body may be able to travel by electrical charge.”
The writer then states: “This would help to explain why acupuncture is able to exploit energy pathways to heal the body.”
I assume the article’s writer was referring to Graham Lawton’s article in your DNA Special of 15 March (p 38). If he or she is correct, have I missed something? Is it really possible to equate the electrical conductivity of the DNA molecule to the so-called meridian pathways of acupuncture “energy”? To do so seems to me to make the false assumption that what happens at the micro level can be assumed to apply also at the macro level.
I get the feeling that the good name of your magazine has been hijacked to underpin some pseudoscientific theory.
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Graham Lawton writes:
• The BBC Ceefax report is so far from the truth that it cannot even be described as a distortion. It’s pure fiction.
No researcher I know of has made a link between charge transport in DNA and acupuncture, and I very much doubt that any of them would be remotely interested in doing so. There was no mention of acupuncture anywhere in my story. It is also grossly inaccurate to report that Â鶹´«Ã½ says that repair enzymes “travel by electrical charge”.
Burgess Hill, West Sussex, UK
