The original article was published on July 9, 2019 („Wie gefährlich ist Shiatsu? Wissenschaft und Polemik“; /wie-gefaehrlich-ist-shiatsu-wissenschaft-und-polemik)Translation by Dr. Eduard Tripp and Chris McAlister. Under the title „Shiatsu: do the benefits outweigh the risks?“ Edzard Ernst, the former Chair of Alternative Medicine (University of Exeter) and well known in Great Britain, comes to a devastating conclusion: „… the proven benefits do not outweigh the potential harm“. In his opinion therefore, Shiatsu can only be advised against. If one examines his contribution in detail, however, one sees a wholly tendentious and partly falacious account – his report appears under the cloak of science, but does not correspond with it in certain essential…