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What Pseudoscience do you Believe?
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this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2025
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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.
There's no scientific definition of alternative medicine, it's not a real category.
You might want to check out wikipedia.
Ah, that explains why you think popular definitions are somehow scientific.