The Galileo fallacy is the pseudoscience variant of a messiah complex. Roughly stated: Galileo was vilified for his ideas Galileo was proved right I am vilified for my ideas Therefore I am right The fallacy is obvious enough when stated in those terms; it is the classic “my dog is a cat” case. So, the Galileo fallacy [...]
A repeated feature in debate around alternatives-to-medicine is the way proponents react to scientific investigation, and conversely attempt to play the science card themselves. It comes down to: the core tenets of our modality are an eternal mystery which is not amenable to scientific investigation; whereas the effects should have the legitimacy of scientific support [...]
One problem for CAM is that it includes modalities that have mutually inconsistent models of the body and mutually inconsistent approaches. Homeopathy is founded on the idea that a disease can be treated by giving infinitesimal (actually usually zero) quantities of something that seems to cause similar symptoms. Homeopaths usually rationalise this by reference to [...]
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