People have been practicing tribal medicine for just as long. Not a fad either.

And, it turns out, some of those things even work. I know, right?

I guess with enough trial and error, you can find solutions to many problems, no matter how flawed your understanding of the problem is.

It's always a good thing to question. Unless of course you belong to the camp who choose to be wilfully ignorant and closed in light of overwhelming evidence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9679537