rebeccawatson,
@rebeccawatson@mstdn.social avatar

My latest: why "Therapeutic Touch" is a ridiculous pseudoscience, and also why that famous study debunking it is actually kind of bad https://skepchick.org/2023/12/is-therapeutic-touch-the-most-ridiculous-pseudoscience/

slcw,
@slcw@newsie.social avatar

@rebeccawatson OMG therapeutic touch drives me insane. These people are redonkulous. Bottom line, you can't heal people's afflictions by waving your hands over them. You might as well claim chanting "Abracadabra" cures cancer. Absolutely absurd! 👋👋👋

joshsusser,

@rebeccawatson That was a bit of a ride. Since you asked for other pseudoscience things to debunk, can you do ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis) sometime? icydk: ABA is gay conversion therapy for autism - developed by the same person even (Ole Ivar Lovaas). But while gay conversion therapy is getting banned in more and more places, ABA is the standard therapy for autistic kids and often the only one insurance will cover. And there's no good science to back it up, either. You may not believe what you discover - much about ABA makes no sense, like how some of the practices are so bad they are illegal to use for training dogs but allowed for humans.

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