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Emily Rosa, an American from Loveland, Colorado, became at the age of 11 the youngest person ever to have a research paper published in a peer-reviewed medical journal — the Journal of the American Medical Association. The City of Loveland is a Home Rule Municipality that is the second most populous city in Larimer County, Colorado, United States. Peer review (also known as refereeing) is the process of subjecting an author's scholarly work research or Ideas to the scrutiny of others who are JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association is an international peer-reviewed general Medical journal, published 48 times per year by the American

The daughter of a registered nurse and an inventor, Rosa at age 9 in 1996 performed a study which debunked the claimed ability of 21 Therapeutic Touch (TT) practitioners to detect a Human Energy Field or aura. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) A debunker is an individual who discredits and exposes claims as being false exaggerated unscientific or pretentious Therapeutic touch (TT, also called Non-Contact Therapeutic Touch (NCTT or Distance Healing, is an energy therapy claimed to promote healing and reduce In Parapsychology and many forms of spiritual practice an aura is a field of subtle luminous radiation surrounding a person or object like the Halo or

To perform her blind study, Rosa had each of the TT practitioners put both of their hands through a screen, behind which Rosa sat. She then flipped a coin as a means of randomly selecting which of the TT practitioner's hands she would put her hand next to, on the theory that if they could feel and manipulate a person's "aura", then surely they could at least feel someone's aura when that person placed a hand next to the practitioner's hand. A random number generator (often abbreviated as RNG is a computational or physical device designed to generate a sequence of Numbers or symbols that lack any The results did not prove any better than results which would have emerged from mere guessing, showing that the practitioners could not detect Rosa's aura.

Rosa's study originally took place as part of a school science fair when Rosa was 9. A science fair is generally a competition where contestants present their Science project results in the form of a report display board and models that they have created An "astonished" American Medical Association then accepted her paper on the study for its journal and published it in 1998 when she had reached the age of 11. The American Medical Association (AMA founded in 1847 and incorporated 1897 is the largest association of Physicians and Medical students in the United States Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) She also won the "Skeptic of the Year" award from the Skeptics Society. The Skeptics Society is a Nonprofit, member-supported organization devoted to promoting Scientific skepticism and resisting the spread of Pseudoscience

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