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Not knowing how it works does not make it pseudoscience. It is enough if you can show through double blind that it works. For quite a few established medication

• fossuser 6y ago
  I think we agree? Just because you don’t know how something works doesn’t mean it’s pseudoscience. You just might not understand the mechanism. There’s a greater risk that something you think works actually doesn’t though if you don’t test it. There’s also a greater risk that claims people make about things in this untested space are more likely to be false. Part of the reason it’s important to test and understand the mechanism is that people are good at deluding themselves with all sorts of biases and made up false explanations.