system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why is alternative medicine so popular? How is there a multibillion dollar industry, with millions of devotees, dedicated to medical treatments that don't even work?
gpt
Because the correlation between cause and effect is hard for us to see. Science can prove it all we like, but unless you read and understand the literature yourself, there's very little difference between believing in science and believing in engrams.