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Even at the time, most people know homeopathy was a crock, even when Hahnemann started the quackery.
And Mary Baker Eddy was so mentally ill that she believed her own bullshit. Just another example of the infinite gullibility of cult followers.
She did, she had a history of lying and hypochondria, and gaslighting herself into believing her own lies because of the hypochondria.
She started suspecting she had powers after she believed she had cured her own paralysis...
The doctor who treated her would review his case files for biographers, and revealed he never believed her to be in critical injury nor even implied that she had any kind of paralysis. What really happened is her own hysteria caused her to blatantly misinterpret everything he said in the worst way possible.
The only reason she had as many followers as she did was because her system actually was helpful. Not because she had powers or anything, but at the time hers was one of the only movements that barred people from smoking, something that people believed was not only harmless, but healthy for you. So people actually were seeing notable improvements in their health and longevity... because they stopped smoking, not because they had magic powers.
There was also the not allowing people to go to the doctor at a time where the doctor was more likely to kill you than your disease.
As Medical Science got better, Christian Science became less helpful and more detrimental.
People really were seeing miracles, Mark Twain even directly stated that Christian Science would one day be bigger than the Roman Empire because of what it was doing for people....
But no one realized it was from abstaining from tobacco