Original sentence: According to Brian Dunning, the scientific term energy is, in fact, misused in the context of spirituality and alternative medicine:.Claims related to energy therapies are most often anecdotal (from single stories), rather than being based on repeatable empirical evidence.Despite the lack of scientific support, spiritual writers and thinkers have maintained ideas about energy and continue to promote them either as useful allegories or as fact.However such ideas are discredited and modern science has all but abandoned the attempt to associate additional energetic properties with life.The idea that some kind of "negative energy" is responsible for creating or attracting ghosts or demons appears in contemporary paranormal culture and beliefs as exemplified in the TV shows Paranormal State and Ghost Hunters.Therapies that purport to use, modify, or manipulate unknown energies are thus among the most contentious of all complementary and alternative medicines.There is no scientific evidence for the existence of such energy.They continued to be discussed in the 20th century by some thinkers and practitioners in the modern New Age movement
Edited sentence: Spiritual writers and thinkers have maintained ideas about energy and continue to promote them either as useful allegories or as fact.They continued to be discussed in the 20th century by thinkers and practitioners in the modern New Age movement