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To say I was dumbfounded would not be an understatement.

Regarding the use of Quantum Mechanics, scientists at the University of Toronto had issues with the following paragraph in the curriculum as well as the required reading:

We will delve into a quantum physics’ understanding of disease and alternative medicine to provide a scientific hypothesis of how these modalities may work. Quantum physics is a branch of physics that understands the interrelationship between matter and energy. This science offers clear explanations as to why homeopathic remedies with seemingly no chemical trace of the original substance are able to resolve chronic diseases, why acupuncture can offer patients enough pain relief to undergo surgery without anesthesia, why meditation alone can, in some instances, reduce the size of cancerous tumors.

As of last week, only the group who expressed concerns about the abuse of Quantum Mechanics had received a response from the university. The President charged the Vice President with looking into the matter. The response from the University mentions nothing about the concerns regarding the inability of Quantum Mechanics to support alternative medicine, and instead only defends the professor’s approach to immunization:

“The instructor’s approach in the class towards the issue of immunization in particular had not been unbalanced. It did not deviate from a presentation of material that, in context, would enable critical analysis and inquiry. From an academic pedagogy perspective, (we) found that there had not been sufficient deviation from the range of scholarly approaches to immunization to warrant concerns.”

To say I was dumbfounded would not be an understatement.

First of all, scientists from the University of Toronto — the real experts — who feared this instructor was abusing their field of research to support homeopathy and alternative medicine, were ignored. Did the school not understand that the course is more than immunization? Did they even read the letter? Do they know what homeopathy and Quantum Mechanics are? Do they not care about the deterioration of science by allowing misinformation to be taught at a University level? Did they confuse the two letters?

I mean I just can’t even…

If ignoring the concerns of scientists about the abuse of Quantum Mechanics wasn’t bad enough, to conclude that the teachings about vaccines as represented by the curriculum are not “unbalanced” from a “scholarly” perspective simply renders me speechless. As far as immunization is concerned the curriculum is a veritable lesson in false balance and perversion of the scientific method.