A similar situation is true for cancer, they sell you treatments that are expensive but will not alter the course of cancer (except for intermittent negatives o

A similar situation is true for cancer, they sell you treatments that are expensive but will not alter the course of cancer (except for intermittent negatives on tests, which raises false hopes), to add insult to the injury, your quality of life will be substantially worse than if you did not have the treatment. It goes without saying that there are exceptions to the norm I mentioned above.