Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

Bolo Boffin

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9. Of course one can. It depends on the negative being expressed.

Wed Dec 28, 2011, 11:35 AM

Dec 2011

And the one I stated - that the remedy is no more effective than a placebo - is quite easily proven by good experimentation. If you prefer, state it as the remedy being only as effective as the placebo. Whatever.

Plausibility is in the eye of the beholder, especially when it comes to medicine. A $34 billion industry has got a lot of apparent plausibility going for it, and spending a few million knocking the plausibility out of that industry sounds like freeing up some of those billions to go towards more effective medical treatments.

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