Why is woo sold as "mainstream?"

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140. That it doesn't conform to science is the problem.

Medicine is a science. When you throw out the science part to promote Asian (for example) modalities you have no basis other than anecdotal evidence which is subject to all sorts of cognitive biases.

People think these modalities work because they have positive results for their various complaints. But when they are studied using blinded, placebo controlled studies, the effects are inevitably non-existent.

Another effect of the research is that the larger and better controlled studies are all negative.

Proponents like to cite individual studies, but these are usually the early studies with no blinding and no controls which basically makes them useless. That's why one must look at the whole research body not individual research. When one sees the effects disappear as controls and blinding are tightened, you're done. One can say that the modality is ineffective.

Thanks for the response.