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In reply to the discussion: Naturopaths and the creep of pseudo-science [View all]Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)Even you admit that its "activity" doesn't make any sense, isn't it possible that what you are observing is either confirmation bias and/or the placebo affect?
ON EDIT: To put it simply, this is a situation where Occam's razor is very helpful, and most likely leads to the truth, for example, in order for homeopathy to work, water(or other substances, like sugar) would have to have a type of memory, that means a storage medium, which can only exist at either the molecular, atomic, or subatomic level. We have yet to observe this, at all, indeed, we actually understand particle physics quite well. So, in order for there to be room for this memory, our entire understanding of the entire universe would have to be wrong, from subatomic particles to supernova, pretty much every field of science would be affected, physics, chemistry, biology, etc.
Or, more likely, you are displaying confirmation bias or experiencing the placebo affect.
Which do you think is more likely?