This. I am an academic, and I run a bioengineering lab, but am also into fitness and health. I get infuriated when I see any kind of health related practice cal

This. I am an academic, and I run a bioengineering lab, but am also into fitness and health. I get infuriated when I see any kind of health related practice called “woo,” because science just isn’t advanced enough yet to offer useful advice on most real world health issues. Almost everything that works, that has a long history of actually helping people is still a mystery, and therefore “woo.” Even most of modern medicine remains a mystery in terms of actual mechanisms. People quick to call everything woo are almost never actually scientists themselves, and have made science into a sort of infallible religion, e.g. scientism. I also don’t like it when people claim these things are backed by mechanistic understanding when they are not. I guess that is partly what gets them labeled as woo. It’s okay to say “this seems to work really good but we have no idea why.”