Most humans are dumb and fall for snake oil. It's a greasy way to make money, but it's not really surprising in this day and age of "facts."
I think I finally see where I went wrong:<p>Instead of actually getting myself well and trying to figure out how to share info on that, I should have just become a celebrity movie star first. Then I could be raking in the dough instead of being poor and ignored and occasionally pissed on for the assumption that what I am doing is anything like this.
Is it winning? Eh, probably not really. Remember, pseudoscience and quackery has been popular for pretty much all of human history, and like with this its often been promoted by celebrities and other influencers.<p>A lot of this stuff has become popular over the years, from Intelligent Design to faith healing and homeopathy and those weird mystical bracelets people were advertising about ten years ago.<p>Yet it never won. It never became the 'common' consensus on a topic, or something the mainstream believed in, or that the scientific establishment promoted. It became popular with a moderately large but still somewhat niche audience.<p>And that's the case here too. This 'Goop' thing couldn't truly win, because truly winning would mean people would generally take it seriously. No example of pseudoscientific nonsense has ever really won in that sense.
This points out the subjective failures of science, IMO. Just because there's no evidence for something doesn't mean it won't make you happy. Obviously if there are health issues it should be addressed, but this seems to be more motivated by a personal vendetta than science.<p>If something makes you happy and improves your quality of life, why not do it as long as the positives outweigh the negatives? You could argue that the products are all psychological if you want, and that doesn't make them any less useful. Possibly more so.<p>Science is about reducing uncertainty. It is not about suppressing hobbies that seem offensive or weird.
Apologies for my foul language but Americans are uneducated as fuck! This is why crap sells so well only in America.<p>Before someone goes off about best schools, best companies, best other things, do remember that these "bests" are not available to the masses in America.<p>The anti-science, anti-schooling, anti-intellectualism is rampant across the nation, resulting in articles such as this!<p>Celebrities are revered more than Scientists, Business is revered more than environment.