| I understand that millions if not billions of people do not care if something can be shown to be effective. All that matters to them is if they think it is effective. However such behavior is not honest. People fool themselves all the time. Many do get better from snake oil. This is a well known effect in medical tests and is called the placebo effect. This is why you will hear on drug commercials statements such as "side effects found to be to be no worse than placebo". That is because the placebo effect can go both ways. Even if a person is given a substance with no active ingredient, if they think it will cause harm then some people will experience actual harm. It just goes to show how much people can fool them selves and how much control the mind has over the body. This is very important to remember whenever you hear fantastic claims. You must control your enthusiasm and look at the facts. Can they be explained in other ways than what is presented and has the claimant taken the time to conduct experiments to rule out his own explanation. If someone can do that and do it honestly and accept the results as they fall then actual science is happening instead of quackery even if all the results are negative.
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