What's up with all this snake oil lately?

[A Black Falcon]

DJ, it's brought up because (as OB1 says and you can't see) it really is kind of immature. Okay, go and ignore his posts. Fine with me, a lot of the things he says much of the time are worth ignoring. But totally blocking them all? Stupid. You cut out the decent ones as well as the bad. But more importantly, it makes threads like this one and a couple others kind of weird... :)

Anyhow, putting so much confidence into the modern-day scientific method is the only real problem I have with DJ's stance. I probably believe in most of this stuff about as much as she does, but I don't completely dismiss everything not proved by the scientific method simply because our scientific method is based on our current level of understanding of the sciences, which is still pretty much in its infancy. Not being able to prove something as true does not necessarily prove it falsehood.

I'm extremely skeptical without proof and even then I'm still skeptical; see 'acupuncture'.

Oh and who was that last paragraph in reply to? That had almost nothing to do with what I was talking about.

DJ likes to talk about science, OB1... not necessarially with a reason...

As for the subject, I don't think about it a whole lot (and don't run into people saying how, as I think DJ said once, talking about how the germ theory of disease is wrong... maybe I'm not around the right places... :D), but sure. Holistic healing, etc, etc... all garbage in most all ways. The only way I can see any effect coming from any of that stuff is if it affects the person into thinking it should make them feel better -- after all, the human mind is strange and you can convince yourself out of some ills. On a similar note, I don't understand at all how stuff like acupuncture has any effect... doesn't seem like it should...