Why crackpot medicine sometimes works
January 5, 2013 § 4 Comments
Sometimes placebo effects help, even if you know it is a placebo. Sometimes actual treatment reduces your quality of life and can even kill you.
It follows that for some patients some of the time crackpot medicine will result in a better outcome than going to the doctor.
Half-apologia for Protestantism accepted, now please explore what happens when the doctor’s governing boards, hospitals, and paymasters become so riddled with non-doctors or barely practicing doctors that crackpots get better real-life results based solely on the fact that they’re honestly trying to make people better.
Oh, it is just gonna get uglier still from here, Dystopia Max. (The Protestantism comment went right over my head though).
Make cryptic statements, get enigmatic replies. But since your recent postings have shown a greater willingness to use common speech to solve common problems, let us leave the ugliness for another time.
Even my friends accuse me of being “Delphic” sometimes in my writing, which I think is a charitable way of saying obscure. In that light you may or may not find it amusing that I meant this post completely straight: no metaphor, no enigma, just wysiwyg.