Could Qigong Just Be the Placebo Effect?
Is qigong placebo, or is something else actually happening? Placebo needs a believer — a rice field and a caged mouse have none. What the non-belief evidence actually suggests.
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Qigong Doesn’t Act on Disease — It Acts on Life
The reported evidence across plants, animals, and people points to the same reframe: qigong doesn’t appear to target any single disease, it appears to act on life itself.
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The Qigong Mouse Studies: What Happens When the Subject Can’t Believe
A set of reported mouse studies removes belief entirely from the question of whether qigong produces measurable change — read here as laboratory records, not a medical claim.
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Can Qi Affect Plants? The Qigong Crop Field Trials
A rice paddy has no beliefs to influence, which is exactly why the qigong crop field trials are one of the most interesting places the practice has ever been tested.
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Facts vs. Truth: What Science Can Measure and What It Can’t
Modern science is extraordinarily good at collecting facts, and understanding the limits of science is the real starting point for taking a practice like qigong seriously.
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Is Qigong Scientifically Proven? What the Evidence Actually Shows
The honest answer to whether qigong is scientifically proven has less to do with qigong and more to do with what a young science has and hasn’t looked at yet.
