Anyone with some experience in the world of pseudoscience feel some alarm when meeting with a statement like this:
And that is exactly the first thing one encounters when visiting the web the so-called "Bunker Method" of training for rescue dogs. That and a lots of pictures and references to the many merits of its creator (and owner of the page), who included no less than "official Biography", which the alarms start to sound deafening.
In fact it is very difficult to evaluate one such method. Indeed, a look at the "introduction " published by the website itself again bring to mind many of the characteristics pseudoscience. Such prestigious organizations as the Organisation Rettungshunde Internationale, the American Rescue Dog Organisation or the American Kennel Club not seem to have even heard of the method. And in our country, opinions are divided, basically, between the excitement of ... Well, the creator of the method one hand, and criticism a specialized forum on the other. In fact, in view of what counts from Mexico Andrew Tonini, that the "Method Chest" has all the earmarks of being something like a GT-200 canine version. So it's
as little surprise that the University of Córdoba will provide an introductory course Chest Method endowed with 3.5 points of free choice.
Admittedly dress like this does not look like much. Come on, seems so peripheral, so little academic, as announced a course on copyright Czech cinema in the sixties and the various ways to prepare and taste the white garlic, right? There is an official recognition, right? For
do not know, but it seems. In the note published by the University (though what he says and how he says it reminds suspiciously like the contents of the official website of the method) we read that
Córdoba University will carry out projects research and development in the field of ethology after the signing of an agreement between the rector José Manuel Roldán and Jaime Parejo, creator of Chest method for the use of it in relation to matters of Ethology and Animal Protection which taught in undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Córdoba.
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The method is considered a revolutionary scientific system for training and intervention canine search teams, which has increased the rescue of persons in disaster having been recognized as the first scientific research prize awarded by the Royal Canine Society of Spain or the Certificate of Distinction Award from the United Nations Sasakawa.
course that's nothing compared to what it says your web method (emphasis added):
from 13 to 17 December 2010, will be given officially at the University of Cordoba, the institution is, the first course "Introduction to the Arcon Method, training and intervention system for Canine Search Teams and Detection."
This course, carefully selected and officially approved , fell within the macro-area of \u200b\u200bexperimental science, seen as theoretical and practical teaching in the course of Ethology, Animal Protection and Ethnology of the Veterinary Curriculum at the University of Córdoba and has a duration of 50 hours of theory and practice (5 credits), face, spread over 5 days.
And all this, well, pales next to what this significant (and in some ways to chilling) commented on the note by the University :
I am proud to be ARCONIANA, is beautiful to give our contribution to humanity with the rescue
Come which apparently is true that this whole "Method Chest" is a recognized progress for humanity. What is unclear is which way is forward.
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