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This is not evidence-based medicine, this is woo-woo.
I’m not gonna give you some pep talk or a “woo-woo” solution to your problem.
It's interesting that so many people today are abandoning "traditional" religions, but replace them with some woo-woo, new age mumbo jumbo.
"I became a believer when I could see the results," she said. "It wasn't just woo-woo stuff."
She acknowledges this might sound "woo-woo" but said it's grounded in science, and she certainly does not oppose conventional medicine.
If that sounds a little woo-woo, consider this: In a Harvard University study, hypnotized subjects were led to believe they were experiencing pain, and researchers discovered that the same areas of the brain reacted as if the pain were real.
He devotes himself to battling woo-woo and pseudoscience.
