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A Theology of Quackery: How Alternative Health Became a Secular Religion

A Theology of Quackery: How Alternative Health Became a Secular Religion

Approaching alternative health as a secular religion has important implications for how we address belief in pseudoscience. Alternative health shares many features with conventional religious belief including a creation myth, fall from grace, demons and salvation. It explains why education in the sciences, or specific disciplines of immunology, oncology, etc. has limited effectiveness in changing deep-seated alternative health beliefs.