• tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
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    edit-2
    3 months ago

    Meh. Placebos affect people so, I let them have it.

    Edit: obviously not to the detriment of real remedies. Calmate

    • Signtist@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      My mom died of cancer a few months ago because she was convinced that a combination of sunlight's natural vibrational frequency and some expensive "medical" herbal teas would cure her. Placebos affect people, but if you let them believe that they're an alternative to actual science and medicine, then they'll use them as such.

    • Saganaki@lemmy.one
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      3 months ago

      If it “makes me feel better”, fine.

      If it “makes it so I’m not contagious and won’t give you Covid”, no.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 months ago

      you really haven't thought this through, have you?

      Not only does this encourage scammers to scam people, which is itself obviously bad, but it also means that some people will buy these things instead of getting actual treatment.

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      I feel like with all this placebo stuff you get like 10% increase in perceived well-being vs. a good 10% of the population just going full woo woo about this stuff

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      Selling people fake remedies is always going to be to the detriment of real remedies unless they are targeted exclusively at conditions for which there are no real remedies.

      Furthermore, the real issue isn't about "letting people have their crystals", it's about letting people sell fake remedies, something that should be banned unconditionally. Profiting off of pretending to help people while not helping them is socially malignant.

      OP is phrased in terms of attacking consumers because the poster is an idiot, as made evident by their absurd and pandering rhetorical tact.

  • Mac@mander.xyz
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    3 months ago

    Short comment:
    Does the LHC explain emotions?

     

    Long comment:
    Perhaps there are other "forces" in the universe than physical forces. For example what is faith but a non-physical force? And yet it drives people to feel certain ways and do certain things. Same goes for love.

    Just like the placebo effect there are many things that affect a person internally even though externally they don't appear to be doing anything.

    If something so simple as wearing a bracelet brings balance to someone's troubled mind then I don't see the issue nor do I see the reason to argue about it on the internet.

    Now, all that being said, these products are just a grift. We lost the plot when we went from
    "pretty rock that eases my mind because I get dopamine from looking at it"
    to
    "this rock has magical powers and you should buy it because of that".

    Conclusion: people are allowed to feel spiritual and psychological connections with things and it is wrong to take advantage of those feelings for profit.

  • Big_Bob [any]
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    3 months ago

    Speak for yourself. My JO crystal is so supercharged I can levitate up to 6 cm from the ground and yell louder than a police siren.

    I have won several fights by blinding my opponent with the flash of the JO crystal as I crank my hog with one hand and swing my crystal with the other.

    My seed has become so powerful, I'm banned from donating semen in 17 countries, including Papua New Guinea and the Pharoe Island.

    I have channeled the unholy energies from my magnetic wristbands and wooden bracelets to erect a dark labyrinth to contain me so I won't accidentally break reality apart when I crank my hawg too hard.

    Do not underestimate the power of crystals.

  • Hexamerous [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    I and a lot of other people use crystal bracelet to help us sync up with other people. Even if we're apart for days, we can show up exactly at the same place at the same moment if our crystals are vibrating at the same frequency.

    How do you explain that?

    • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 months ago

      Is that frequency something you can control or measure? Do you agree on a shared "let's meet" frequency you set it to, and if the other happens to have it set to that as well, you end up meeting? Or is it more of a random chance thing, like running into each other in places you both frequent at coincidentally matching times and deciding it must be the bracelets' doing?

      Or am I falling for a joke?

      • Hexamerous [none/use name]
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        3 months ago

        I don't really know, I only know the basics of how to use it. But twice a year when the planet reaches a certain position in the solar system, you have to calibrate it 1/24th of an earth rotation, and then do it again after a certain time. I don't understand why, but everyone is doing it. The crystal draws energy from a silver pendant the size of a coin.

  • HumongousChungus [she/her]
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    3 months ago

    The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is the most complex and sensitive particle physics experiment ever constructed. If it hasn't found evidence for "dark matter" or "cosmic strings", some billion-dollar camera you stick in space is not gonna do it either.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      It's a stupid post, but the idea is clearly that these energies, if they matter at all to human health, clearly don't exist exclusively within crystals.

  • molave@reddthat.com
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    3 months ago

    The person with the crystals has already concluded, by faith or by doing large logical leaps, that those contain new energy.

    The scientists behind the LHC have to meticulously find evidence along the way before they can make a conclusion.

    They are not the same.