This text comes from the stern archive and first appeared in February 2020.
How I came to homeopathy? She helped me! I was sick, I wasn’t feeling well, I took globules – and I felt better afterwards. My experiences with homeopathy are certainly quite typical. But the fallacy to which I was subject is also likely to be widespread: What could be more obvious than to assume a causal, causal connection here and to see my improvement in health as evidence of the effectiveness of the globules? But unfortunately it’s not quite that simple.
Our bodies are complex, and so is our health. Many factors play together (and sometimes against each other), the body influences our psyche and vice versa. And precisely because everything is so complex, our brain, which likes to use as little energy as possible, prefers to choose the simplest path and draw conclusions from the (seemingly) obvious to the fundamental. But let’s make the effort not to let our intuition and hasty conclusions do the talking, but let’s investigate the complex connections.
The inconvenient truth is that just because an illness disappears or symptoms improve after we give ourselves a few beads or a medication, it does not necessarily mean that this intervention was the actual cause of the subsequent change. Unfortunately, we are all too easily deceived at this important point.
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