The University convened a panel of faculty from both that university and elsewhere to examine the scientific evidence for Therapeutic Touch. They recommended the practice not be taught for another 20 years until sufficient evidence had been established to validate it. The response to this report was very postmodern. In their view, the evidence was not as important as the ones interpreting it. In the end, the University has allowed Watson's Center to continue teaching Therapeutic Touch on the basis of academic freedom.
Postmodernism poses threats to people's thinking in a number of areas.
But in health care, it also poses a threat to their bodies. Instead of receiving treatments that actually work, those who place their hope in postmodern-defended alternative medicine can easily end up failing to treat serious conditions. Meanwhile, students in medical and nursing schools nationwide are being urged, or even required to tamper with the occult in the name of alternative medicine. None of this would have been possible without the postmodern shift in thinking. In fact, outside review has discredited all their work.