. . . um. Yeah. I've got nothing to say except the general "humanity sucks" rant.
. . actually, no, I have to say that it annoys me when people go all whackjob with practices/disciplines that do have some merit in the real world, but are not precisely mainstream, because it makes it more difficult to persuade people to try legitimate alternative therapies and ruins the reputations of legitimate practitioners. Acupuncture does provide pain relief for some patients when drugs won't anymore; it's not a worthless practice. But I think it's pretty worthless when used to determine someone's sexual . . status? Whatever.
(Incidentally, ditto herbal remedies; a lot of them are very much real medicine, but that doesn't seem to stop people from treating the use of them in a terrifyingly casual manner ("Well my friend's neighbor's hairdresser said this helped her grandmother, or something that sounded like it did? So I went to the health food store and they gave me this other thing that they said was pretty much the same but it was cheaper, but it only had human dosing on the bottle, so I just cut that in half to give to my cat. Do you think that'll help her kidney failure?" . . . and sadly, that is not even an exaggeration. Not a quote, more a representative sampling of various things I've heard (as exact quotes break client confidentiality), but you get the idea.)
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. . actually, no, I have to say that it annoys me when people go all whackjob with practices/disciplines that do have some merit in the real world, but are not precisely mainstream, because it makes it more difficult to persuade people to try legitimate alternative therapies and ruins the reputations of legitimate practitioners. Acupuncture does provide pain relief for some patients when drugs won't anymore; it's not a worthless practice. But I think it's pretty worthless when used to determine someone's sexual . . status? Whatever.
(Incidentally, ditto herbal remedies; a lot of them are very much real medicine, but that doesn't seem to stop people from treating the use of them in a terrifyingly casual manner ("Well my friend's neighbor's hairdresser said this helped her grandmother, or something that sounded like it did? So I went to the health food store and they gave me this other thing that they said was pretty much the same but it was cheaper, but it only had human dosing on the bottle, so I just cut that in half to give to my cat. Do you think that'll help her kidney failure?" . . . and sadly, that is not even an exaggeration. Not a quote, more a representative sampling of various things I've heard (as exact quotes break client confidentiality), but you get the idea.)