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Corrigendum compounds errors and again fails to support the specificity of acupoint tapping

Spielmans, G., Rosen, G. · Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease · 2022

ReviewPreliminary✓ Source-checked📍 United States
In plain English. This is a rebuttal paper arguing that a correction issued by EFT researchers (Church and colleagues) about whether tapping itself adds anything beyond other therapy components used a questionable statistical shortcut -- switching to follow-up data instead of end-of-study data, and combining very different follow-up timepoints. The authors stand by their own earlier finding that tapping showed no significant added benefit at the original study endpoint. This is one side of an ongoing methodological dispute in the same journal, not a new clinical trial.

What they found

The authors argue that Church, Stapleton, Kip, and Gallo's corrigendum improperly shifted to a post-hoc follow-up analysis while pooling disparate follow-up timepoints, and maintain their own prior finding of no significant specific benefit for acupoint tapping at study endpoint.

How the study worked

Who took partCritical re-analysis of Church, Stapleton, Kip, and Gallo's corrigendum on acupoint-tapping dismantling studies
What they didThis is a review or commentary synthesizing existing work rather than reporting a new trial.

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DesignReview
PopulationCritical re-analysis of Church, Stapleton, Kip, and Gallo's corrigendum on acupoint-tapping dismantling studies
JournalJournal of Nervous and Mental Disease
Year2022
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
MethodEFT / tapping
Publication typeReview or meta-analysis
Verification✓ Confirmed against the primary source

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Spielmans, G., & Rosen, G. (2022). Corrigendum compounds errors and again fails to support the specificity of acupoint tapping. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. https://doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0000000000001376

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THE TAPPING EVIDENCE BASE How It Works (Biology) ✓ Review WHAT THEY FOUND The authors argue that Church, Stapleton,Kip, and Gallo's corrigendum improperlyshifted to a post-hoc follow-up… Review Spielmans · 2022 · evidence.thetappingsolution.com