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    1. 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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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. 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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    5. 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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    6. 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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    7. 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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    8. 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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    9. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 27 Aug 2019

      In many ways, this is just a natural progression. Once you've accepted the existence of an invisible, unmeasurable, unknowable force, the idea that you can manipulate this force somehow makes sense

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    10. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 27 Aug 2019

      Osteopathy is another great one. As I said, it was invented a bit prior to chiropractic by Andrew Taylor Still Similar to Palmer, Still posited the existence of a vital force that drove most of human healthpic.twitter.com/SsGekQ7vlq

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 27 Aug 2019

      The basic beliefs of osteopathy are basically identical to chiropractic, which is why many people believe that Palmer stole Still's ideas

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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 27 Aug 2019

          Still believed that the body was controlled by a vital force that transcended physicality, and could be manipulated by correcting problems with the musculoskeletal system He thought that any illness could be cured through the body's natural defenses, aided by osteopathy

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 27 Aug 2019

          Another common theme through all of these systems of thought is that you can cure all disease using them Similarly, they are all pretty much entirely wrong

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