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bioemerl · 2860 days ago · link · · parent · post: Who do you trust? Your Doctor or Your Psychic? - Conversation with My Sister

I really want a law that takes these people who fool others like this and charges them for the damages they are the cause of.

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lil · 2860 days ago · link ·

Thanks, I get that.

It's complicated, because of the placebo effect.

It's complicated for what spoons said.

Science is hard to understand. Magic is easy to understand. I wish it were the other way around.

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Existentialist · 2860 days ago · link ·

It's complicated, because of the placebo effect.

When it comes to psychics (or are you talking about acupuncture?), it isn't so much a placebo effect as it is the psychic making very broad, generalized statements that could be applied to near anyone or any situation.

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lil · 2860 days ago · link ·

In the story the psychic is one person - a friend, who doesn't charge. The acupuncturist is another person that my sister has been seeing for a long time. She uses all kinds of Chinese medicine.

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Existentialist · 2859 days ago · link ·

A friend? Wow. I feel that makes it worse. I can understand lying to strangers for the sake of your job, but I could never do something like that to a friend...

Have you met this psychic friend? Do they seem delusional? Do you think they believe they are psychic?