When you try it for yourself, you realize that it's not.
How often do home remedies "work" because of placebo and/or simply time?
Wive's tales and home remedies still circulate because they often work. Of course, you're not going to read that on Hacker News because it's biased by people wearing modern American blinders that don't have the humility, courage, awareness or something else, to just try for themselves. I was that way until I tried psychedelics, meditation, pranayama breathing, lucid dreaming and many other alternative modalities just two years ago.
All love--good luck on your journey!
No, it's about having some degree of scientific rigor, as opposed to blind anecdote.
Thanks for the conversation, best to you.