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"how can you prevent people from claiming..." Do I understand correctly that you oppose people searching holistic remedies to their ills because they might acc

• ekianjo 6y ago
  > that you oppose people searching holistic remedies to their ills Nope, I am for individual freedoms as long as it happens in their private sphere. > a percentage of these might accidentally turn into snake oil salespeople the problem is that bullshit takes a lot more time to debunk that it takes to spread. So you end up with hoaxes, false claims, rumors, confirmation bias spreading through other people's minds with extreme speed because of how we communicate right now. And my point is that as long as you can't make people understand that "anecdotal evidence" means absolutely nothing, you can't stop this from happening: it means you will end up with bullshit spreading everywhere and good Science being ignored or simply drowned in a torrent of unfounded claims.
• cattlefarmer 6y ago
  I used to be of the opinion that it doesn't affect me directly so I don't care. But as more of us don't care, it becomes more common place, and then our (more gullible) relatives start taking in this information and will not listen to you because everyones knows it works! Whatever "it" is. So no, I believe that we must actively fight false information. Not "we" in an individual sense, but "we" as a society, and that means regulation.