I don't know. But how can we really claim things are "proven" or the trials are "rigorous" when they literally assume some sort of magic in their fundamental de

I don't know. But how can we really claim things are "proven" or the trials are "rigorous" when they literally assume some sort of magic in their fundamental design? I mean we should at the very least dial down our certainty in medical claims until scientists can satisfactorily explain why they think new age woo/homeopathy/etc is beyond the pale neanderthal stupidity, up until the moment it's relabelled "placebo" when suddenly it can work. I mean we're in an environment where the US President is forcing an entire nation to take an experimental medical treatment on the back of (failed!) trials, simply because politician's faith in "science" and the medical establishment is 100% unshakeable. Largely because scientists themselves hardly seem to admit to the true levels of uncertainty in their own work (replication crisis etc). There's a huge mismatch between people's perception of study rigor and "sometimes people think themselves better lol magic innit", which is basically the state of our understanding of the placebo effect.