Eli5: how are treatments like acupuncture, kinetic tape and homeopathy still a thing, if scientific studies disproving their effectiveness are publicly available to everyone and doctors?

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Eli5: how are treatments like acupuncture, kinetic tape and homeopathy still a thing, if scientific studies disproving their effectiveness are publicly available to everyone and doctors?

In: Biology

Answer 1

I’ve had acupuncture. It really helped.

Don’t care if it worked by its own merit or by placebo effect.

We’re electrically operated beings. We’ve not got the pinnacle of knowledge yet, I think, so it would be strange to say out and out that it doesn’t work. Perhaps we are still a bit too thick to understand it?