Just a thought:
I think all practices that claim to be able to deliver health benefits should be banned from selling their products to the public, in the interest of public safety, unless they can prove that their treatment is more significant than a placebo.
This would mean that Homeopathy, Reflexology, Acupuncture, Faith healing, copper wrist bracelets and other nonsense practitioners will need to have their claims proven in double blind trials before they are allowed to sell their product to the public. People would sill be free to engage in these practices on their own or with friends as long as no money changed hands.
The two advantages of this are as follows:
1) People who currently seek these nonsense treatments for serious illnesses do so under the pretence that these treatments are actually effective and could save their lives. Under my proposal they would be forced to seek real treatment, giving them a real chance of recovering for the money they spend on treatments. Parents with weird beliefs would no longer have an excuse for choosing nonsense treatment for their children.
2) It will encourage more research into various fields of study because if these practitioners and peddlers want to be able to sell their products they must meet a standard, therefore they must do real research and development into a product in order to make it effective. No longer will people be able to profit from bullshit, whether they do it knowingly or not.
I think all practices that claim to be able to deliver health benefits should be banned from selling their products to the public, in the interest of public safety, unless they can prove that their treatment is more significant than a placebo.
This would mean that Homeopathy, Reflexology, Acupuncture, Faith healing, copper wrist bracelets and other nonsense practitioners will need to have their claims proven in double blind trials before they are allowed to sell their product to the public. People would sill be free to engage in these practices on their own or with friends as long as no money changed hands.
The two advantages of this are as follows:
1) People who currently seek these nonsense treatments for serious illnesses do so under the pretence that these treatments are actually effective and could save their lives. Under my proposal they would be forced to seek real treatment, giving them a real chance of recovering for the money they spend on treatments. Parents with weird beliefs would no longer have an excuse for choosing nonsense treatment for their children.
2) It will encourage more research into various fields of study because if these practitioners and peddlers want to be able to sell their products they must meet a standard, therefore they must do real research and development into a product in order to make it effective. No longer will people be able to profit from bullshit, whether they do it knowingly or not.
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