Anti-woo commentators are a bunch of smug and condescending...

[Ms. Toad]

113. There's that smugness, again.

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Your response assumes:

1. Nothing you define as "woo," is supported by evidence
2. Nothing should ever be tried outside of a clinical study unless there is solid proof it works
3. That I am unable to engage in solid research to determine the difference between treatments and substances (whether you deem them "woo" or not) which are (at a minimum) not harmful and perhaps even supported by evidence, or a scientifically sound theory as to the treatment pathway - and those which are harmful
4. The use of alternative medicine inherently replaces using traditional medicine.
5. That evidence based treatments inherently exclude anything you have deemed "woo"
6. That I am unable to engage in solid research to determine when non-traditional medicine is appropriately used as a substitute for traditional medicine - and when it is appropriately used as complementary medicine.

I have a degree in science (physics). Until recently my work has required that I understand and evaluate medical literature. I am also proficient enough that I tentatively diagnosed my daughter's rare medical condition - confirmed later by her physician (her doctor refused to believe she had this condition - or anything serious wrong with her - until he humored me by running the test I suggested), I articulated a disease pathway which is now the accepted disease theory for another of her health conditions (I am not claiming that it was adopted BECAUSE of my - just that, before it was adopted or heard it articulated by any medical authority it was how I was explaining my daughter's disease, and I articulated concerns about adjuvants in vaccines as they related to individuals with a genetic predisposition to - a concern which research is now beginning to confirm using RCTs.

Treating all use of CAM as "woo" and dismissing those of us who believe it can play a responsible role in medical care as imbeciles who need to be protected from our own stupidity IS smug, condescending, and - often in these threads is expressed with an authoritarian tone.