Russell's teapot is an analogy, formulated by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making empirically unfalsifiable claims, rather than shifting the burden of disproof to others.
He wrote that if he were to assert, without offering proof, that a teapot, too small to be seen by telescopes, orbits the Sun somewhere in space between the Earth and Mars, he could not expect anyone to believe him solely because his assertion could not be proven wrong.
Now while, Russell specifically applied his analogy in the context of religion we could just as easily extrapolate this to pseudo scientific claims.
for example

if you tell someone this "herb or spice will cure a person of leukaemia" vs me saying "that won't work it is pseudoscientific mumbo jumbo" the onus is on YOU to prove it works rather than me to prove it doesn't work.

THAT is the modus operandi of science
another point to note

if you counter to me the whataboutism that "oh why don't you talk about that person and his herbs why are you only talking about my herbs" well just accept you've already lost the scientific debate

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#PseudoScience
#AlternativeMedicine
#Medicine

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