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IMO psuedoscience needs to be shut down HARD. If there’s legitimate use of something and the pseudoscience mythologizes it to do more than that even more so as people who get it for one of the things it’s legit for could more easily be duped into believing the bullsh*t and expose themselves to potential harm or just degrade the common understanding of reality.
If alternative non science based therapy- for example acupuncture or cupping makes you feel good, why not? As long as you’re not spending your last dollar on it, or treating it like primary healthcare, I don’t think alternative stuff needs to get shut down.
In the US at least, I think it’s a symptom of the state of healthcare. Among other things, insurance is an expensive bureaucracy, medication is over prescribed, scientific literacy is low… it’s not shocking that people see this pseudoscience as a viable alternative
I suffer under the American dystopia. I’m familiar with how bad it is here.
I like to burn incense on occasion for no other reason than enjoyment of the scent created. I’m fine with doing things for the sake of ‘feels good’. What I’m opposed to is the prevalence of falsehoods or indeterminable notions held to be true and from them actively harmful decisions being made. I don’t see a mechanism to effectively prevent that category of poor decisions from being made without addressing the root cause.
Edit for Clarity: Was just thinking about my comment and felt I should add to clarify that I in no way mean to say taking the nonscientific services away from anyone. I mean to say shut down the advocacy for unsupported, and occasionally quite dangerous, assertions that these can do anything more than what they demonstrably do. My ire is directed entirely at advocates and practitioners who act on or spread misinformation.
IMO psuedoscience needs to be shut down HARD. If there’s legitimate use of something and the pseudoscience mythologizes it to do more than that even more so as people who get it for one of the things it’s legit for could more easily be duped into believing the bullsh*t and expose themselves to potential harm or just degrade the common understanding of reality.
If alternative non science based therapy- for example acupuncture or cupping makes you feel good, why not? As long as you’re not spending your last dollar on it, or treating it like primary healthcare, I don’t think alternative stuff needs to get shut down.
In the US at least, I think it’s a symptom of the state of healthcare. Among other things, insurance is an expensive bureaucracy, medication is over prescribed, scientific literacy is low… it’s not shocking that people see this pseudoscience as a viable alternative
I suffer under the American dystopia. I’m familiar with how bad it is here. I like to burn incense on occasion for no other reason than enjoyment of the scent created. I’m fine with doing things for the sake of ‘feels good’. What I’m opposed to is the prevalence of falsehoods or indeterminable notions held to be true and from them actively harmful decisions being made. I don’t see a mechanism to effectively prevent that category of poor decisions from being made without addressing the root cause.
Edit for Clarity: Was just thinking about my comment and felt I should add to clarify that I in no way mean to say taking the nonscientific services away from anyone. I mean to say shut down the advocacy for unsupported, and occasionally quite dangerous, assertions that these can do anything more than what they demonstrably do. My ire is directed entirely at advocates and practitioners who act on or spread misinformation.