[diggan]

> Isn’t a big part of your userbase into new age stuff? If you think of it as nonsense, how do you earnestly try to serve them? Aren’t they asking for features you think are bunk?

A chiropractor uses maps of human bodies to understand where things are, even though they use the information differently than doctors and surgeons, both groups base their understanding on the same facts.

I'm guessing the same can apply in more areas than medicine too.

[crooked-v]

> both groups base their understanding on the same facts

Chiropractors base their knowledge on secret messages from a ghost [1].

[1]: https://nationalpost.com/health/the-first-chiropractor-was-a...

[animal_spirits]

Don’t generalize all practitioners based on the strangeness of the first one.

[crooked-v]

The strangeness of the first one is the basis of the field. Literally all of chiropractic practice stems, objectively, from the one guy and his ghost revelations circa 1896 or so.

[Henchman21]

Chiropractic medicine is quackery. I am happy to acknowledge that some people find it helpful!

But let’s be honest: it isn’t scientific in the least, no matter what modern practitioners have gussied it up with.

[deze333]

Exactly that. Instead of fighting belief systems, offer something that is useful for different practitioners. There is massive amount knowledge that can be made interactive and broaden our understanding of reality we live in. And there is an aspect of fun and unexpected discoveries once one decoupled themselves from any kind of ideology. Be outside the box.

[criddell]

Absolutely. So if you made a body map and your user base starts asking for you to add chakras or reflexology areas or acupuncture locations and you think that's all a bunch of woo, how do you respond?

[diggan]

For reflexology/acupuncture, you could have a section where you highlight typical focus points used in reflexology/acupuncture, without giving any sort of positive acknowledgement for them as treatments.