Contrarian view: any placebo that is mostly water diluted by a lot more water is probably a fairly safe placebo, and societies need some good placebos -- as long as they're not substituting for real medicine, and people don't take them too seriously.https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1188821452193239040 …
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What? You think it’s a good thing if people are deluded and lying to themselves? But only sort of?
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Delusion and self deception are the basis to civilization? Perhaps if using “civilization” in a culturally relativist way, you could say that. But it would still be quite insane to advocate for it, as if it had any place in a genuinely civil society...
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I agree with Isaiah. The real problem here is the perpetuation of the belief in magic.
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A rational mind looks through the rear view mirror while the emotional, deluded ahead
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