(October 18, 2014 at 5:13 pm)LastPoet Wrote: I think people stupid enough to fall for this shit deserve to be relieved of their money. Hell, for how long has homeopathy been running, selling expensive water?
But remember the placebo effect is a real effect. If they believe they WILL feel the benefit.
From an episode of The Simpsons Wrote:Crowd: We need a cure! We need a cure!
Dr. Hibbert: Why, the only cure is bed rest. Anything I give you would only be a placebo.
Woman in Crowd: Where do we get these placebos?
Man: Maybe there's some in this truck!
[the panicky crowd push over a truck, boxes labeled "danger killer bees" break open, the bees go everywhere and everyone panics, one man puts a bee in his mouth]
Man: I'm cured! I mean, ouch!
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
