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The thing is Reiki is just the latest in a long line of fads we have to consider seriously, despite having a (reasonable) prior that they won't work because the
by bigfudge 7y ago
The thing is Reiki is just the latest in a long line of fads we have to consider seriously, despite having a (reasonable) prior that they won't work because the physics doesn't make sense. Proponents of woo can keep wasting our time by switching to a newly labelled energy fad. People spent a lot of time and serious money running trials of homeopathy etc. We will see the same pattern here.
- tsimionescu 7y agoThat's the most likely outcome based on prior experience, I agree. Though I would stress again that the fact that practitioners believe they are performing some kind of magic does not prove they can't have stumbled onto an effective practice by accident and long trial and error.