• tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Meh. Placebos affect people so, I let them have it.

    Edit: obviously not to the detriment of real remedies. Calmate

    • Saganaki@lemmy.one
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      3 months ago

      If it “makes me feel better”, fine.

      If it “makes it so I’m not contagious and won’t give you Covid”, no.

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      3 months ago

      My mom died of cancer a few months ago because she was convinced that a combination of sunlight’s natural vibrational frequency and some expensive “medical” herbal teas would cure her. Placebos affect people, but if you let them believe that they’re an alternative to actual science and medicine, then they’ll use them as such.

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      3 months ago

      you really haven’t thought this through, have you?

      Not only does this encourage scammers to scam people, which is itself obviously bad, but it also means that some people will buy these things instead of getting actual treatment.

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        3 months ago

        If people are getting their medical advice from a meme post in a meme community on a link aggregator on the Internet, I doubt there is much that actual science, education, and common sense can do to help.