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
Because humans are bad at making decisions individually. They will take quick and easy “solutions” that don’t actually work over harder/scarier ones that do ESPECIALLY when it means challenging their preconceived notions and/or admitting they might be wrong about something.
Look at the pandemic, we had a proven method to reduce both individual risk and the risk to others, something that should have been lauded as a great achievement of mankind and adopted as quickly and widely as possible. Yet some people, out of sheer obstinance and stupidity eschewed it in favor of useless and even dangerous alternatives.
Many humans are illogical and remain ignorant by choice.
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