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**Media Response 1**


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Dr. Paul E. Dennison [|Phyllis Books] [|Moira Dempsey] [|Shelley Dicus] [|Lydia Knutson] [|Matthew Thie]
 * Bonnie Hershey **

There was nothing in PubMed about these people.


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Ben Goldacre wrote an article titled “Brain Gym- Name & Shame.” I found this article to be very interesting because he talks about all the ways in which this idea that you can do physical movements that will help you learn better is absolutely ridiculous. He makes a couple funny comments about stuff that they recommend for the program to work “its best” but the requests don’t even make sense. It is obvious that Goldacre is against Brain Gym and everything that they claim.


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I honestly had a hard time finding a lot of “research” about this company. It did not really indicate where any of their research had come from and they did not have a lot of evidence to support their claims. The founders of Brain Gym claim “that adherence to its regimen will result in more efficient learning in an almost miraculous manner” but in all honesty, I find it really hard to believe that doing a couple of physical exercises can improve a person’s learning ability because of the lack of evidence. I think that those are very bold claims to make when they have little to no evidence to back it up (or at least any that I have found.) Out of all the articles I read, none of them had scientist to back up the research so to me that is not enough to prove that these exercises work. I feel like it is kind of like the placebo effect because people are told that it will do all of this and they just start to believe in their heads that it is working when in reality it is not. Furthermore, it is not enough to just buy the program and see if it works for you. People need to do their own research and investigation so to speak, to see if it is really worth it. The consumers should consider the lack of scientific evidence there is available on the internet which could have something to do with the reliability of their claims.