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

Its because these treatments ARENT UNeffective, they are just “as effective as a placebo.”

the placebo effect is surprisingly strong.

combine that with people not understanding their own body’s reaction to the thing, and you get a treatment that “feels like it works” to some who try it.

Then those people recomend it to their friends, and the cycle continues