Weighing in on this debate: 1) Tackling pseudoscience properly (not in a drive-by fashion) can teach critical thinking skills and basic scientific concepts to a public that desperately needs it.
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In addition, I occasionally chime across a treatment for which Google searches bring up nothing but marketing material, laudatory articles, and seemingly positive studies, with nary a hint of a skeptical take.
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It is of value in these cases to seed the interwebs with a careful deconstruction.
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Chiropractors are another big one. It's confusing for a lot of people when they start dropping literature.
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I always think that people who present debunking pseudoscience as trivial have rarely tried, or looked into the astonishing prevalence and detrimental effect these modalities can have
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Prasad is both wrong in thinking it's easy, and also implying a sort of puritanical belief that something's being easy makes it shameful.
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