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What gets in the way of Critical Thinking?

October 23, 2020 By Julie Onofrio

correlation is not causation

So here is the thing… In my previous posts I talked about Science literacy, Science vs Pseudoscience and critical thinking that you might want to read before this post, but the general overview is the massage profession is full of information that has been handed down by tradition and the lack of science creating a […]

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Critical Thinking

October 22, 2020 By Julie Onofrio

critical thinking for massage therapists

As I was looking for a clear definition of critical thinking, it became evident that there is no clear definition or clear process of what critical thinking would look like. Thinking critically means that we work through a process of questioning everything. Richard Paul, in the book Critical Thinking: Tools for taking charge of your […]

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Science vs Pseudoscience

October 19, 2020 By Julie Onofrio

science vs pseudoscience for massage therapists

In pseudoscience or fake science, bias (read more about bias in part 1 – Science Literacy) is often the basis of collecting the evidence along with poor evaluation of evidence to agree with their theory. There is no quality control in pseudoscience. It does not mean that it is bad science. Science fraud is where […]

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Science Literacy

October 18, 2020 By Julie Onofrio

science literacy for massage therapists

What is Science Literacy? Science Literacy is the knowledge of key concepts in science and understanding the process of science. The origin of literacy is letra, Latin for letter, and literacy once very simply referred to the capacity to recognize letters and decode letter strings into recognizable words,along with the concomitant capacity to write words […]

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Massage Research Literacy

February 17, 2014 By Julie Onofrio

What is research? Research is a conversation that builds knowledge over time.  It is a way of taking all of our stories from our hands on work and putting it into a format that can help us to make sense of what massage does and what we are doing in our daily massage practice.   […]

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