People have always been like this... it just used to be that the "doctor" was always willing to bleed you or physick you, or whatever. Now doctors are trained o

People have always been like this... it just used to be that the "doctor" was always willing to bleed you or physick you, or whatever. Now doctors are trained only to render useful treatments, but the desire for woo is unchanged. As you say, people don't like feeling ill, and if the answer is, "You're human, maybe it's environmental, or it's just you, etc..." people would rather take the illusion of personal control. That has never changed, and is unlikely to change unless medicine advances enormously. People aren't very bright and thoughtful at the best of times. When we're really hurt, what little reason we have goes out of the window.