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  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldtoFunny@sh.itjust.worksAccurate
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    13 minutes ago

    I’d agree but oil is absolutely next level to all of that. Entire countries are basically held hostage by energy supply which was never the case before. You could cut off trade and that’s the worst thing you could do but now you can fundamentally disable the entire country as oil is so fundamental to everything.

    Oil was such a massive security mistake that we’re still collectively recovering from it.







  • Yeah, I’m very well aware how double blind works and my point is exactly related to your 2nd paragraph. Be it coincidence or actual real placebo caused healing (which happens) it would be a major perspective trauma and it definitely happens!

    Personally I do think that mental states absolutely impact biology through many invisible forces like hormone production and behavior. So getting a placebo and believing that it works can stimulate specific hormone production or healthy behaviors like going for a jog which ends up legit healing the person. It’s easy to see how this could lead someone to a more spiritual or religious point of view because in this experience something like “faith” is legitimately healing them tho not in the way they think.



  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldScience wins again
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    4 days ago

    Sometimes I think about the opposite where a patient is given placebo and then is cured. Imagine living the rest of your life knowing for certain that your body could cure whatever ailment it’s going through but it’s like naaah

    Would legit drive people to deep spiritualism if not religion.