I think that people are hoping for larger effects. I have been a lifelong allergy sufferer. Many years ago, my doctor gave me an intranasal antihistamine. It

I think that people are hoping for larger effects. I have been a lifelong allergy sufferer. Many years ago, my doctor gave me an intranasal antihistamine. It came with a piece of paper about the studies done on it. Patients rated their symptoms on a 1-5 scale, and the study observed the ratings with and without. The placebo group rated their symptoms, say, 4.0. The people on the drug rated them 3.5. I would say that's exactly the effect I got from the medication, an improvement, but not a complete elimination of symptoms. Certainly some people are going to go to their pharmacist and say "this does nothing", and that might lead them to believe it's all a scam. It's not really a scam, it's just that expectations were not set correctly. People want "this will cure you and you'll get a gold metal in the Olympics!" but all we have is "this will make life slightly less miserable". It's probably the same for many conditions and medications. Antidepressants don't turn you into someone who is always happy. Painkillers don't make recovering from surgery a joy. I think that people even had the same feelings about COVID vaccines; they wanted "one shot and you'll never be sick again", but all we got was being 90% less likely to get COVID or whatever. None of this makes these things a scam. Rather, they are imperfect technologies that we work to improve. Silver bullets are rare, but they do exist. Just not all the time. (Have you died from strep throat or polio recently? People used to all the time!)