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Came across a list of pseudosciences and was fun seeing where im woo woo.

Lunar effect – the belief that the full Moon influences human and animal behavior.

Ley Lines

Accupressure/puncture

Ayurveda

Body Memory

Faith healing

Anyway, list too long to read. I guess Im quite the nonscientific woowoomancer. How about you? What pseudoscience do you believe? Also I believe nearly every stone i find was an ancient indian stone. Also manifesting and or prayer to manipulate via subconscious aligning the future. oh and the ability to subconsciously deeply understand animals, know the future, etc

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Mind-body. That you can think yourself sick, or well. Not like magic, but a lot of the time. Like how people won't get sick until vacation a lot of the time, they say "don't have time to get sick" so then on the day off, the mind tells the body "ok now you have time!". All of my kids were born on a day off or weekend, same thing in a way. And once I read a book where the protagonist' hands were burned, very vividly described, and got blisters on my fingertips.

I just really believe a lot of physical illness, and health, comes from thinking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That's a long list I've only skimmed it and I didn't find the theory I like most, the stoned ape theory. That belief that some distant ancestors ate some shrooms and discovered art and a higher state of mind. I've taken a microdose a little too high and my vision was like an impressionist painting for a few moments and it made me so happy because Monet and Van Gogh now made absolute sense.

It might be a little too convenient but I think it works and it's really sweet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I believe that literally every esotheric and nonesotheric bullshit is more trustworthy than everything a politician says at any given moment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Feng Shui, though I mostly credit it to the Dear Modern channel breaking the concept of qi and energy down into stuff like human traffic flow, activities, scenery, and noise, and using that to optimize spaces for comfort. It's mostly psychology, and some of the superstitious stuff I'm not really into.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Definitely the lunar effect, but that is still under study. There's a documentary called "The Shark Side of the Moon" which follows a scientist trying to prove a lunar effect on sharks. There's also some inconclusive evidence of a lunar effect on people with bipolar disorder; the full moon might trigger mania, probably due to excess light during nighttime. Context: >!People with bipolar disorder (known as 'manic depression' years ago) are very sensitive to light, substances, and many other things that can trigger manic or depressive episodes for them. The possible mania under the full moon may be a reason behind myths like werewolves and terms like 'lunatic'.!<

I'll edit if I find more.

Edit: I found another one which I would easily try or suggest to others if evidence-based therapies have failed.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of psychotherapy in which the person being treated is asked to recall distressing images; the therapist then directs the person in one type of bilateral sensory input, such as side-to-side eye movements or hand tapping. It is included in several guidelines for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Some clinical psychologists have argued that the eye movements do not add anything above imagery exposure and characterize its promotion and use as pseudoscience.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Uff, i have a lot:

Life on earth is a huge organized organism. It created intelligent humans deliberately sothat we can spread life to other planets. Living beings (plants, insects, other animals, fungi) could not do that otherwise.

All life is sentient. Sentience doesn't come from the brain, rather it comes from the hormones in your bloodstream. When we sweat, these hormones enter the air (apparently within the fraction of a second) and other people can smell them. That is how we can instinctually know how others are feeling.


Also i have a lot of mythology:

Heaven (realm of all ideas, knowledge and forms) and Earth (origin of mass and material) are a love pair. Because they couldn't easily meet (there was an insurmountable gap between them), they created a bridge, which is life. This way, heaven supplies the shape (genes), and Earth supplies the body, and these two can be together in this way.

Viruses are books. They have a cover (shell) and contain scripture (RNA/DNA). We humans let them in because they are nature's messengers and have a specific purpose, which is to exchange some information.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ask for more and i will give.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

sry i'm too tired rn

maybe another time :D

here's a short summary:

plants produce life out of the four elements (water, air, sunlight, earth), so they are producers of life. animals/fungus are consumers of such life (they eat fruit) and decompose it into urine, air, shit, and heat/energy. so it goes full-circle.

what, however - you may ask -, is in it for the plants? why produce food only for animals to eat it? it is because the plants get something for it, and that is that animals transport the seed in the fruit around and drop it somewhere far away. so plants get movement or transport from the animals. and that advantage is, in fact, large enough for the plants for it to even bother producing food in the first place. so quite big. that's not really pseudoscience btw, more real biology done by real biologists, but still interesting :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I really want to believe the Assassin's Creed concept that our DNA holds memories from our ancestors.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Epigenetics. But that's not as cool as whatever Assassin's Creed is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Body Memory

I mean, cellular memory and muscle memory exist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That wiki article is very biased.

It also has problems distinguishing pseudo medicine (proven not to work) from alternative medicine (not conclusively proved or disproved).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Once something works, we call it medicine. There's no such thing as "alternative medicine".

Even if it's weird, or comes from popular knowledge, or disrupts the profits of a pharmaceutical company - if it's proven to work, it's medicine.

Modern doctors are using fish skin to combat burns, maggots against necrosis, electroshock therapy for depression.

The things that need the "alternative" qualifier before the word "medicine" are the ones that do nothing but extract your money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm not sure what are you trying to tell me.

That you agree with me that "alternative medicine = not proven to work, but I'm wrong somehow"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If your definition is that something can be called "alternative medicine" simply because we have no proof if it works or not, my magic stick that heals all wounds is alternative medicine.

What? There are no studies proving it doesn't work... and no, I won't let you touch it. But it's alternative medicine!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That's literally alternative medicine defined as per well, science. And you being silly doesn't take from it. In the past, viruses were considered alternative medicine (quackery even), until they were proven to exist and work as in theory.

If you hit someone with a stick and that person gets cured of cold, it's alternative medicine (you suspect there's correlation or causation, and repeating the treatment during other incidents tends to have similar effect, i.e. when you hit more people they also get cured). When it's proven that there's causation between your action and the cure, then it's medicine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's no scientific definition of alternative medicine, it's not a real category.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You might want to check out wikipedia.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Ah, that explains why you think popular definitions are somehow scientific.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I think you sorted things into three types of medicine:

[ pseudo, alternative, modern/mainstream ]

I think he believes that most things you put into the alternative category have already been mostly studied; those being not proved or disproved to work.

I think the that some issue here comes from the fact that conspiracy theorists / other (for lack of an agreed upon modifier) medicine gurus may have used the argument that some medicines aren’t proven to be bad yet as a way to give them legitimacy.

Whether or not other medicine is good for you should be be studied and determined to be medicine or not. Until then we can’t say anything about its efficacy. But there can be carry on effects: protein powder was found to have heavy metals, is protein powder good? Maybe in certain circumstances, but concentrating a given substance can have unintended consequences when not properly analyzed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's hard resisting the power of the moon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Or in the case of Destiny and FFXIV:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Especially if you work on a boat, by the coast.

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