Absurd to Lump All Those Things Together

Regarding "Kevin Williamson... dissing the entire pseudoscience canon...."

/hops on soapbox

It's absurd to lump all those things together. Wonderful for click-bait, though, I suppose.

Just for one example, NUCCA upper cervical adjustment (a very gentle, specialized kind of chiropracty) relieved my wife from decades of migraines in one adjustment. Most of chiropracty is valueless-to-dangerous, absolutely, but not all.

I have even had too much "anecdotal" experience over three decades suggesting that there's more to homeopathy than we can scientifically validate, yet, even if it's also my experience that 96% of what is popularly claimed for it is crap (and much of what passes for "homeopathy" simply isn't, in classical terms).

It's like vitamins. Most supplements are worthless, and people in their nutritional ignorance are more likely to throw their vitamin balance off with supplements than actually do themselves any good. But, if you are for some reason severely lacking in some fundamental nutrient, vitamin therapy is just what you need. You don't throw the baby of B12 out with the bathwater of moon in Pisces with Venus rising!

The health industry's snake-oil salesmen we have always with us. Finding real health in the haystack is tricky, sorting out the effective from the superstitious, the St John's Wort from the powdered rhino horn.

So, I like to always bear in mind the wise words (paraphrased from memory) of Mark Twain:

Don't believe everything you read in health books. You might die of a misprint.

/soapbox