#which is i guess actually the same backwards logic as homeopathy as well. | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

bananonbinary · 2 days ago

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the draw of pseudoscientific medical practices is really interesting to me cause like...i kinda get it. these con men tend to prey on like...intuition? they peddle things that sound like they COULD make sense, on some "common sense" level, and then get you hooked in before letting loose the truly bonkers stuff.

like, chiropractic for example.

"the central nervous system is located in the spine." yes.

"everything in your body eventually leads back to that system." also yes. go on.

"problems in your spine (bulging disks, pinched nerves, etc) can have pretty big impacts elsewhere in the body." yep, good, with you still.

"so i will now fiddle around with that with no proven method or safety precautions and cure everything from halitosis to cancer. also i learned this from ghosts or something." now hang on i think we need to check ur calculations on that one, chief.

#acupuncture is the same way #like. pressure points exist. in the sense that some parts of your body are especially sensitive.#and sometimes when something hurts. a treatment that causes more pain is actually the answer. (like with a sore muscle or locked up joint)#but then we reverse that logic to say 'there must be a type of pain that will fix everything'#and we're in nonsense territory again.#which is i guess actually the same backwards logic as homeopathy as well.#its almost like all of these use the same logic cause they have the same con men driving them

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