Back in April, I blogged about a paper published in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (JNMD) claiming that a little-known technique called ‘quantum resonance spectrometry’ (QRS) was able to diagnose mental health problems. I expressed surprise that the paper didn't explain what QRS actually is, how it works, or what it measures.
Now, eight months later, a Letter to the Editor has been published in the JNMD: Methodological Queries Regarding "Exploratory Quantum Resonance Spectrometry". The authors are Thom Baguley, Phillip Moriarty, Steffen Nestler and Stuart Richie, all readers of my original post. I'm credited in the Acknowledgments. I'd like to thank all four of the authors for their work in getting this letter out there - and their patience in sticking out what was a long submission process. Baguley et al. raise the following specific queries about QRS:
In our opinion, the following fundamental points were left unaddressed. ...