It is especially disappointing when an individual trained in the health sciences turns to promoting quackery. Friends and colleagues often wonder how this can happen. Daily practice can become humdrum.
Pseudoscientific ideas can be exciting.
The late Carl Sagan believed that the qualities that make pseudoscience appealing are the same that make scientific enterprises so fascinating. Low professional esteem. Nonphysicians who don't believe their professions is sufficiently appreciated sometimes compensate by making extravagant claims. Fringe podiatrists may claim to be able to judge health entirely by examining the feet. Even physicians are not immune from raising their personal status by pretension.