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That’s like saying alchemy is science because chemistry developed from it. If it has no reproducibility, it’s not science it’s speculation.



No it’s not and this comparison is facetious. Nobody practices alchemy as a mainstream science in 2021.

There are plenty of people doing astrology for instance but in a clinical setting? In funded university programs? Producing papers that can be openly challenged? I don’t think so. Again facetious.


That’s not a meaningful metric. Plenty of people doing astrology in 2021. That doesn’t make it real.




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