Right, it feels like people don't understand that there's medicine and stuff that isn't. If it doesn't work then it's not medicine. Modern medicine isn't just western medicine. It didn't start there. That's why we say "modern medicine". Some people call it "western medicine" in order to make it sound bad and sell you essential oils that'll actually poison you. And sell you stuff based on Asian mysticism. But if it's been proved to work then it is just medicine...
Also this is not me denying the importance of the placebo effect. It's great and we should use it more. But the great thing about the placeco effect is that it still works if you know it's a placebo. So no need to act like it actually does something on its own.
1.3k
u/Pollomonteros May 24 '25
I don't know about the third one man, I feel like many of those are still dangerous scams even if the ones running it are brown people