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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 27 Aug 2019

      While it is impossible to prove definitively, it is widely accepted that Palmer used the ideas of osteopathy, another 'alternative' treatment founded a decade earlier, to invent his pseudoscientific system of thought 4/n

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 27 Aug 2019

      Homeopathy is another interesting one Founded in the late 1700s by Samuel Hahnemann, who took issue with the barbaric medical practices of the time (fair) and created a system of belief that has no basis whatsoever in fact (less fair)pic.twitter.com/Uj2mClA4qT

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 27 Aug 2019

      Hahnemann was impacted by the medical practices of his time, especially bloodletting, which led to him creating a system of medicine that doesn't harm patients The downside to this is that it also doesn't help them, but you can't win them all I guess?pic.twitter.com/7W3C9nd0im

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 27 Aug 2019

      Naturopathy is another good one. Originally invented by John Scheel in the late 1800s, the term was mostly promoted by Benedict Lust the "father" of naturopathy Lust had some really odd beliefspic.twitter.com/zrM8dajoUp

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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 27 Aug 2019

      Lust subscribed to a similar school of thought to Palmer of chiropractic fame, arguing that most of human health was controlled by a vital force of some kind that flowed through our bodies, undetectable

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    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 27 Aug 2019

      The difference is that he thought that the best way to remedy every condition was with "natural" methods This included, for example, restricting coffee and tea intake and warning against excessive masturbation

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    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 27 Aug 2019

      Seeing them side-by-side it's always quite striking how many of the major alternative medicines came from the same school of (flawed) thought at the end of the 1800s 10/n

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    8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 27 Aug 2019

      Reiki is another interesting one - much more influenced by the traditional Japanese systems of thought, it was invented by Mikao Usui in the late 1800spic.twitter.com/nMxLOXiBmi

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    9. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 27 Aug 2019

      Similar to the above examples, he believed that an unmeasurable force controlled all of human health ("qi" or "chi") He went a step further and argued that you could influence this force in other people by passing your hands over them

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    10. Dr KayRay‏ @ktibus 27 Aug 2019
      Replying to @GidMK

      What's really interesting is the misconception by many that these are all ancient practices developed over thousands of years, when in reality most were invented by one person in the 1700 and 1800s, and based on nothing more than imagination.

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 27 Aug 2019
      Replying to @ktibus

      Also a good point. I wrote a blog about that once

      2:58 PM - 27 Aug 2019
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        2. Dr KayRay‏ @ktibus 27 Aug 2019
          Replying to @GidMK

          I always find it bizarre that our consumer laws allow people to sell completely unproven and untested treatments, and they can get away with making completely unfounded claims that would be fraudulent for any other product.

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        3. Dr KayRay‏ @ktibus 27 Aug 2019
          Replying to @ktibus @GidMK

          I think many people don't really understand that the claims of something like homeopathy are just as unfounded as a TV set company claiming that their brand of TV has special healing waves. Both could claim to cure a rashes, but only the TV seller ends up at consumer affairs.

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