A Gym For The Brain?

I was reading Charlie Brooker's excellent column in The Guardian and was disappointed to learn that our educational system, underfunded though it is, seems to have bought into the wave of pseudo-scientific nonsense that is washing over us and is paying good money for something called "Brain Gym". You can view the official "Brain Gym" website here: http://www.braingym.org.uk/ Even from the first page, it starts looking more than a little suspicious. Look at this quote for example, which surely won't fill you with confidence that the tax money being put into Brain Gym is well spent: "the UK Educational Kinesiology Trust, makes no claims to understand the neuroscience of Brain Gym®" read more

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