My dad went to one when his cancer entered the terminal phase, I think he knew it was bullsh*t but it was a more human « treatment » than everything else he went through so he liked it. I still think it was a charlatan preying on him but I guess no more amoral than crystals moms and essential oils MLMs.
> no more amoral than crystals moms and essential oils MLMs.
Or clergy. They all provide the same service, and some people get genuine comfort from it, and I think the large majority of such providers are sincere, so charlatan isn't the right word. For my dad near the end it was chocolate pudding. If a crystal healer or a rabbi could have given him the same comfort I'd have been all for it.
Since data is now the plural of anecdote... Frenchman here. Someone I knew fell from his bike without appropriate gear and ended up in the burn ward. His wife was very into the fire tamer thing and sent him a few practitioners...
He took the morphine.
On another note, I had respect for Aeon as a publication, and now I got a lot less.
My dad went to one when his cancer entered the terminal phase, I think he knew it was bullsh*t but it was a more human « treatment » than everything else he went through so he liked it. I still think it was a charlatan preying on him but I guess no more amoral than crystals moms and essential oils MLMs.
> no more amoral than crystals moms and essential oils MLMs.
Or clergy. They all provide the same service, and some people get genuine comfort from it, and I think the large majority of such providers are sincere, so charlatan isn't the right word. For my dad near the end it was chocolate pudding. If a crystal healer or a rabbi could have given him the same comfort I'd have been all for it.
Never forget:
For all the little bit of positive results for a placebo there are also negative effects due to noceboeffect.
Also it's very common in esoterica that if it works it was the healer if it didn't it was something you did wrong.
What is "noceboeffect"?
> Questions inundate my mind: was it real?
No.
> Did Mme Abgrall cure the warts?
No, that was your daughter’s immune system.
Gaffa tape works wonders, especially on verrucas.
Genuinely. It's like magic.
I assume you meant Gaffer tape?
Since data is now the plural of anecdote... Frenchman here. Someone I knew fell from his bike without appropriate gear and ended up in the burn ward. His wife was very into the fire tamer thing and sent him a few practitioners...
He took the morphine.
On another note, I had respect for Aeon as a publication, and now I got a lot less.
Praise the Sun \o/
apparently my granddad was afiretamer, but he dies before i got to know him
It's well known that realtors get better deals on their houses, doesn't seem to go like that for fire tamers it would seem.