• CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
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    Something like 1/5 of pharmacists believe homeopathy works. How the fuck can you go through that training and still believe in a hyperdilution that’s magic if you shake it the right way and never ever touch it with your fingers because that takes the magic away?

    (For those who are unfamiliar I’m not even being facetious, this is what homeopaths actually believe)

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      1 year ago

      Placebo effect is powerful. They probably have lots of people saying X really helped with their cold/pain/cough/whatever.

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      Pharmacists and General practitioners believing in homeopathy. Physical Therapists believing in chiropractice. There’s way too many examples. But at least physical therapists don’t tend to have PHDs :D

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        Physical Therapists believing in chiropractice

        I will never not be mad that chiropracticians have largely avoided the hunt for woo-woo magic crystal retards. Don’t get me wrong, some people have managed to find treatment for chronic pain in things like acupuncture and chiropractic care that they couldn’t get elsewhere, but most of the time this is presented as equal to physiotherapy despite lacking any scientific support, and the inability for “alternative medicine” to cure or permanently treat people.