September 11th, 2024
- not sure how this fits but this definitely feels like a good example:
- the idea that ayurvedic medicine or more broadly diet-etc interventions could affect mood/cognition/medical conditions
- like there's nothing remotely violating laws of anything for this to work
- though this doesn't exactly point at a non-ego intelligence
- definitely one of the things that's going on is some sort of conflation between woo and snake oil
- which is understandable given the absurd claims sometimes made by woomeisters (that their whatever can treat anything)
- and also given that part of the issue with snake oil is that you can't understand the mechanism and see for yourself why it would work
- there's a kind of trust thing here, where someone is claiming a kind of authority about your problem that you don't really trust they could have