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Came across a list of pseudosciences and was fun seeing where im woo woo.

Lunar effect – the belief that the full Moon influences human and animal behavior.

Ley Lines

Accupressure/puncture

Ayurveda

Body Memory

Faith healing

Anyway, list too long to read. I guess Im quite the nonscientific woowoomancer. How about you? What pseudoscience do you believe? Also I believe nearly every stone i find was an ancient indian stone. Also manifesting and or prayer to manipulate via subconscious aligning the future. oh and the ability to subconsciously deeply understand animals, know the future, etc

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[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not sure either of these counts fully as what OP is looking for, but -

The idea of the technological singularity feels right to me. There's a whole section on the wikipedia page about scientific objections to it, and I get that, but if we don't kill ourselves before then, it seems like an event that almost has to occur at some point, to me. And maybe it zigs instead of zags and we get star trek. Or maybe it zags and we get terminator. But probably neither of those I'm guessing, and these days it's hard to imagine that it would put humanity on a worse trajectory than we seem to be on today.

Similarly, but less seriously (for me) I like to consider the whole "maybe we're in a simulation" theory.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Yeah I kinda adhere to the simulation thing too. As a videogames programmer, every time I try to learn about quantum mechanics I learn about some new quirk that really makes it sound like some game engine limitation

[–] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

when I like to gain perspective and imagine how useless we are on this meaningless little planet in a massive galaxy universe etc I just imagine the lonely little Boltzmann brain that's actually just imagining the whole thing for a few nanoseconds before it returns back to quantum foam

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[–] Kanzar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

When someone says it's quiet at work, suddenly all these emergencies come in...

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Acupuncture, to a certain extent. There's obviously something to it (a friend of mine went there because of various issues, and it helped), but the actual science isn't nailed down yet.

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[–] ray1992xd@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago

Partly hollow earth. There are oceans in the crust, I think that is an accepted theory now. Life could have evolved to survive down there. It might not be anything special but a micro-organism is life too.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Body Memory

I mean, cellular memory and muscle memory exist.

[–] HatchetHaro@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago

Feng Shui, though I mostly credit it to the Dear Modern channel breaking the concept of qi and energy down into stuff like human traffic flow, activities, scenery, and noise, and using that to optimize spaces for comfort. It's mostly psychology, and some of the superstitious stuff I'm not really into.

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I really want to believe the Assassin's Creed concept that our DNA holds memories from our ancestors.

[–] IMongoose@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Epigenetics. But that's not as cool as whatever Assassin's Creed is.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Mind-body. That you can think yourself sick, or well. Not like magic, but a lot of the time. Like how people won't get sick until vacation a lot of the time, they say "don't have time to get sick" so then on the day off, the mind tells the body "ok now you have time!". All of my kids were born on a day off or weekend, same thing in a way. And once I read a book where the protagonist' hands were burned, very vividly described, and got blisters on my fingertips.

I just really believe a lot of physical illness, and health, comes from thinking.

[–] moufle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Osteopathy.

I thought it was scientifically proven, it seems that's not the case 😬

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[–] Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Goodness, that's a lot to read.

I don't know if I believe any of them with actual faith instead of just chalking coincidental things up to some beliefs like that. The Lunar phase one comes to mind as something I'll often reference, but I don't actually believe in lunacy.

However, there's one about grounding methods in the health section. I definitely don't believe there's anything about elecron alignment or whatever bull that all is. But being on the ground helps me a lot with anxiety and relaxation in general. To the point where I prefer sitting in front of my couch vs on it, lol. So maybe I believe in that one, but not in any pseudoscience way??

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[–] Elaine@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

I like all the ones you listed and I love β€œwoowoomancer” as a description. Other than those, I have a good feel for future sight.

[–] Katrisia@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Definitely the lunar effect, but that is still under study. There's a documentary called "The Shark Side of the Moon" which follows a scientist trying to prove a lunar effect on sharks. There's also some inconclusive evidence of a lunar effect on people with bipolar disorder; the full moon might trigger mania, probably due to excess light during nighttime. Context: >!People with bipolar disorder (known as 'manic depression' years ago) are very sensitive to light, substances, and many other things that can trigger manic or depressive episodes for them. The possible mania under the full moon may be a reason behind myths like werewolves and terms like 'lunatic'.!<

I'll edit if I find more.

Edit: I found another one which I would easily try or suggest to others if evidence-based therapies have failed.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of psychotherapy in which the person being treated is asked to recall distressing images; the therapist then directs the person in one type of bilateral sensory input, such as side-to-side eye movements or hand tapping. It is included in several guidelines for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Some clinical psychologists have argued that the eye movements do not add anything above imagery exposure and characterize its promotion and use as pseudoscience.

[–] smb@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

I believe that literally every esotheric and nonesotheric bullshit is more trustworthy than everything a politician says at any given moment.

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