Hi Anon101,
There is a lot of money to be made in Woo, so I doubt that stores will stop selling homeopathic “remedies”
People encase themselves in a system of belief and reject information that conflicts with that belief. My husband uses the term “bubble of belief” to describe this phenomenon, the person is insulated from evidence.
Correlation doesn’t equal causation. I think though that to make such links is strongly rooted in the primitive portion of our brain which is why people have such difficulty setting aside correlation and evaluating objectively. If the correlation was a personal experience the “bubble” is thick.
The movement to evidence based medicine is in response to the recognition that what we think works often doesn’t.
