{"id":1446,"date":"2009-06-12T09:40:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T08:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2009-06-12T09:40:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T08:40:11","slug":"how-does-brain-gym-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1446","title":{"rendered":"How does Brain Gym work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just started reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Bad-Science-Ben-Goldacre\/dp\/000728487X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1244750234&#038;sr=1-1\">&#8220;Bad Science&#8221;<\/a> by Ben Goldacre. An early target of the book is a movement called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brain_Gym\">Brain Gym<\/a> which is practised in many schools in Britain and various institutions around the world. Goldacre calls it &#8220;so obviously, transparently foolish&#8221;.<br \/>\nSo how does Brain Gym work exactly? Well, let&#8217;s go to the official web site for the movement in the UK and study <a href=\"http:\/\/www.braingym.org.uk\/about\/about.htm\">the explanation<\/a>. We are told &#8220;we have considerably greater experience of the effects of the programme than we have certainty as to how it works&#8221;. It is said about why it works: &#8220;The investigation of the neuroscience that underpins Brain Gym is an eagerly awaited project for the future. We can only at the present time hypothesise about why without actually knowing.&#8221;<br \/>\nNow do you understand how it works? No? Neither do its practitioners. Of course, it&#8217;s sensible for children to take breaks, do exercises, and drink water &#8211; but there&#8217;s no reason to invent 26 fanciful exercises and pretend that some special neuroscience is at work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just started reading &#8220;Bad Science&#8221; by Ben Goldacre. An early target of the book is a movement called Brain Gym which is practised in many schools in Britain and various institutions around the world. Goldacre calls it &#8220;so obviously, transparently foolish&#8221;. So how does Brain Gym work exactly? Well, let&#8217;s go to the official [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}