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[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I saw the term "bio resonance" and immediately knew that this ostensible medical practitioner couldn't get in touch with reality if they used a special reality-seeking pole constructed from a thousand dousing rods.

I used to work adjacent to the medical field, close enough to have to deal with a certain kind of medical practitioner a lot. For some reason, that part of medicine attracts people who believe in the supernatural so I'm familiar with bullshit from anthroposophy to quantum healing.

That shit gets real wild real fast. Bio resonance is already terrible (it's basically the same kind of bullshit Scientology's "E-meters" pretend to do but now as a "therapeutic" device with thirty buttons). But the worst must be quantum healing.

In quantum healing, actually seeing the patient in person is not necessary. Neither is knowing a lot about the patient. In fact, the less the practitioner knows, the better. Just give them a picture and a really vague description of the symptoms and the person (or pet; it "works" for those, too), and the practitioner will do something at some point in the future that will have some positive effect on either the person or the universe as a whole, even if it's not obvious. Source: Trust me, bro.

And they charge real money for that shit. Real medical practitioners who went to real university and have a real degree in human medicine.

Absolutely incredible.

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 15 points 2 days ago

What's even wilder is, that at some point I had the "pleasure" to meet someone who was a self proclaimed "expert on radioactivity". This man walked around with a stick waving it around and then measuring radioactivity in percent. He then proceeded to bury a bowl in the field to trap all sorts of radiation in there and cleanse all radioactivity from the nearby area in it. It was god damn awful to see my parents paying actual money for this man.

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