Everyone has personal anecdotes they can share with you to prove to you why a homeopathic treatment works because it worked for them or how they found acupuncture was the only thing that relieved their back pain. This is why all that is virtually meaningless.

5 reasons why anecdotes are totally worthless

Personal anecdotes are often the primary ammunition of those who deny science. If you ask anyone in the alternative medicine or anti-vaccine movements for their evidence, you will almost certainly get flooded with anecdotes. A quick internet search will reveal countless people who are insisting that totally worthless treatments like homeopathy work because they took…

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