Came across a list of pseudosciences and was fun seeing where im woo woo.

Lunar effect – the belief that the full Moon influences human and animal behavior.

Ley Lines

Accupressure/puncture

Ayurveda

Body Memory

Faith healing

Anyway, list too long to read. I guess Im quite the nonscientific woowoomancer. How about you? What pseudoscience do you believe? Also I believe nearly every stone i find was an ancient indian stone. Also manifesting and or prayer to manipulate via subconscious aligning the future. oh and the ability to subconsciously deeply understand animals, know the future, etc

  • Bear@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Once something works, we call it medicine. There’s no such thing as “alternative medicine”.

    Even if it’s weird, or comes from popular knowledge, or disrupts the profits of a pharmaceutical company - if it’s proven to work, it’s medicine.

    Modern doctors are using fish skin to combat burns, maggots against necrosis, electroshock therapy for depression.

    The things that need the “alternative” qualifier before the word “medicine” are the ones that do nothing but extract your money.

    • ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml
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      1 day ago

      I’m not sure what are you trying to tell me.

      That you agree with me that “alternative medicine = not proven to work, but I’m wrong somehow”?

      • Bear@lemmy.world
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        21 hours ago

        If your definition is that something can be called “alternative medicine” simply because we have no proof if it works or not, my magic stick that heals all wounds is alternative medicine.

        What? There are no studies proving it doesn’t work… and no, I won’t let you touch it. But it’s alternative medicine!

        • ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml
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          17 hours ago

          That’s literally alternative medicine defined as per well, science. And you being silly doesn’t take from it. In the past, viruses were considered alternative medicine (quackery even), until they were proven to exist and work as in theory.

          If you hit someone with a stick and that person gets cured of cold, it’s alternative medicine (you suspect there’s correlation or causation, and repeating the treatment during other incidents tends to have similar effect, i.e. when you hit more people they also get cured). When it’s proven that there’s causation between your action and the cure, then it’s medicine.