Alternative Medicine (Hint: This is NOT really medicine)

[Bad Writer]

Alternative medicines persist because people mistake the placebo effect for an actual cure.

And some people will believe any old shit.

This may be the truth in many cases, but I did just mention that even though my sister-in-law is very much an atheist and anti-theist, she still believes in the woo NAET because it apparently cured her. Who knows what really happened to her allergies or if they are even truly gone? What we do have here is a case of cognitive dissonance where a person uses rational thinking in one area (religion), but fails to do so in another (medicine).

I think there are people who will believe in any old shit, but this is generally not the case. We don't have many Christians who believe in Islam and Hinduism all at the same time. I think it's more accurate to say that people believe in very specific shit.