Emily Rosa, an American from Loveland, Colorado, became at the age of 11 the youngest person ever to have a research paper published in a peer-reviewed medical journal — the "Journal of the American Medical Association". The daughter of a registered nurse and an inventor, Rosa at age 9 in 1996 performed a study which debunked the claimed ability of 21 Therapeutic Touch (TT) practitioners to detect a "Human Energy Field" or " aura". Wikipedia
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Rosa said the report began with a fourth-grade science fair project two years ago, when her 11-year-old daughter was 9. www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9804/01/therapeutic.touch/