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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

trotsky

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1. I think it's kind of like chiropractic.

Reply to gollygee (Original post)

Thu Dec 29, 2016, 03:58 PM

Dec 2016

Accepting chiropractic as joint adjustment and massage is perfectly normal.

Thinking that chiropractic cures you by aligning your chakras or some such nonsense is woo.

Yeah tea tree oil has some anti-fungal and/or anti-biotic properties, I've heard. Not sure what tests have done on it. But if I got athlete's foot, I'm buying some Tenactin or whatever.

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Essential oils, vaccines [View all] gollygee Dec 2016 OP

I think it's kind of like chiropractic. trotsky Dec 2016 #1

Sounds like an ignorant hipster trying to play turf war Warpy Dec 2016 #2

NO I have studied the chemistry of essential oils for the last 5 years and can tell you that they flying_wahini Dec 2016 #3

I have a friend heavily into essential oils wyldwolf Jan 2017 #4