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Originally Posted by Qiaozhi
OK - but let's define what you mean by work:
- Astrology - complete bunkum - but believing it could modify the way you approach your day. In this way it could have an effect, but it's still mystical nonsense.
- Magnetic bracelets - placebo effect can give some relief from pain. i.e. it's really down to the individual believing that it works. Not a bad thing.
- Homeopathy - again the placebo effect. As long as you take this stuff alongside your traditional medicine, that's fine. But as soon as you start to believe that the alternative medicine provided the cure, and next time you dispense with the working medicine, that's the danger.
It's like the L rod nonsense. If you believe it works for you, then use it. No-one will convince you otherwise, unless you really want to know the truth. |
Exactly! This is what i meant .
(I give more power of the mind over health than you seems to do, but that´s another story
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