Posted: Feb 14, 2016 8:39 am
The_Metatron wrote:Thomas Eshuis wrote:The_Metatron wrote:Thomas Eshuis wrote:
Nope.
Most placebos are sold as helping your body cure itself, not as divine intervention required by the powerless.
I didn't think anyone sells placebos, as such. Sure, homeopathic shit. But, isn't a placebo a way to define the control in a drugs trial? One group gets the real treatment, another gets the placebo (null) treatment.
Even if that were the case and it isn't, because homoeopathy = placebos, t hey just pretend otherwise, in control groups people usually aren't told either that they're completely helpless and need the placebo to get better.
Homeopathic pills = sugar
Placebo pill = sugar
Homeopathic pills = sugar = placebo pill
AFAIK homoeopathic stuff tends to be water, or actual medicine greatly diluted in/with water.
My point is that neither will actually heal help you, both are sold/promised to you as being helpful, but neither as being necessary because you're completely powerless without divine intervention.