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I offer to cure all diseases with but one remedy, and to stop children dying of disease, for of course I cannot prevent accidents in all cases that are taken in time, and where my instructions are faithfully followed.
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within the traditional medical community it is considered to be quackery
This is called action bias: doing something (or many things!) in order to not appear to be doing nothing; even when therapeutic modalities are not based on scientific evidence, we apply them nonetheless, falling prey to effort justification and sunk-cost fallacy.
... we agree with previous extensive evaluations concluding that there are no known diseases for which there is robust, reproducible evidence that homeopathy is effective beyond the placebo effect.
The FDA defines health fraud as the deceptive promotion, advertising, distribution, or sale of a product represented as being effective to prevent, diagnose, treat, cure or lessen an illness or condition, or provide another beneficial effect on health, but that has not been scientifically proven safe and effective for such purposes.
I offer to cure all diseases with but one remedy, and to stop children dying of disease, for of course I cannot prevent accidents in all cases that are taken in time, and where my instructions are faithfully followed.
This is called action bias: doing something (or many things!) in order to not appear to be doing nothing; even when therapeutic modalities are not based on scientific evidence, we apply them nonetheless, falling prey to effort justification and sunk-cost fallacy.
Later, other photographs were taken by W. H. Sheldon, a researcher who believed that there was a relationship between body shape and intelligence and other traits. Mr. Sheldon has since died, and his work has long been dismissed by most scientists as quackery.
Mr. Sheldon, whose work has since been dismissed by most scientists, died in 1977.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help){{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)I offer to cure all diseases with but one remedy, and to stop children dying of disease, for of course I cannot prevent accidents in all cases that are taken in time, and where my instructions are faithfully followed.
This is called action bias: doing something (or many things!) in order to not appear to be doing nothing; even when therapeutic modalities are not based on scientific evidence, we apply them nonetheless, falling prey to effort justification and sunk-cost fallacy.