I think this is all well and good until someone is deceived into picking homeopathic, new age or "natural" treatments over proven medical treatments in a life or death situation. I think a meaningful portion of COVID deaths, especially ones that happened after vaccines became available, were due to people (some of them are in this thread) actively, energetically, passionately, and emphatically spreading easily provable misinformation about the disease and the vaccine.LOL, that is not peer reviewed studies but just anecdotal claims.
As of 2021 many thousands of papers had been published on the efficacy of acupuncture for the treatment of various adult health conditions, but there was no robust evidence it was beneficial for anything, other than evidence for shoulder pain and fibromyalgia - and none of the evidence that it would be superior to traditional medicine. For Science-Based Medicine, Steven Novella wrote that the overall pattern of evidence was reminiscent of that for homeopathy, compatible with the hypothesis that most, if not all, benefits were due to the placebo effect, and strongly suggestive that acupuncture had no beneficial therapeutic effects at all.
Of course all acupuncture practicing quacks will tell you how effective it is - yet that is how placebo works! Same like homeopathy - complete quackery with zero effect yet millions of dollars earned from naive people believing in that nonsense.
It's funny in a very not funny way, but we're not hearing about 5G anymore, we're not hearing about microchips anymore, we're not hearing about infertility anymore, we're not hearing about mass extinction of those vaccinated anymore... because it is now just too ****ing obvious how much ******** all that was. I first got vaccinate more than two years ago. Billions of people have been vaccinated against COVID, many of us have had a booster or two. None of the fear mongering talking points came to fruition, but the same people who spread that BS are still desperately looking for negatives so that they can still say, even after their primary, secondary and tertiary arguments have gone down in flames, that they were ultimately right about the vaccine. How is it that they just knew the vaccine was bad (despite all their reasons why it is bad eventually failing)? Well, they just knew. They just posses this inherent ability to see the unseeable, to know the unknowable, to understand the incomprehensible. They are just the best of us, standing on the hill and shouting at us about how stupid we are for just following the so-called experts opinions when what we should do is place our faith in them and their intuition, because although they may not have a degree in anything or specialized knowledge or study of the relevant subject matter, they just know what is true and what is not true based on their amazing super human abilities.
The people speaking out against the COVID vaccine are killers... murderers in my opinion. Including the people in this thread I have on ignore. They are responsible for death and suffering that didn't need to happen. They are bad people, even if they believe what they are saying. I certainly wouldn't shed a tear if they faced the consequences of being murderers.