izentrop wrote:
Or the promotion of the placebo effect... the money, the money
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and the mental retard who talks his usual bullshit. ALL treatments are accompanied by placebo effect and nocebo effect, since each depends on the belief that such or such therapy will be favorable to them or not. But radiotherapy costs the skin of the ass so ... the money, the money too.
On the contrary, with certain healers they can say "Give what you want" or even "keep your money!" (will understand who can...)
at least two scenarios: either the fire cutter has a stable job and lives on his salary or he, she, has no fixed income and like any practitioner he or she does not live only on love and fresh water.
On the other hand, "official" medicine costs a lot of money, in consultations and treatments, to the community of contributors, with a very high number of failures such as for cardiovascular diseases and cancers (157.000 cancer deaths per year) for 600.000 annual deaths, i.e. one death in four.
"We make science with facts, like making a house with stones: but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a pile of stones is a house" Henri Poincaré