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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When someone you love swears by a remedy that scientists reject, what do you do with that gap?”
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This is the first I’ve heard of it. Sounds dubious to me, but people have been researching it which is a good start. Whether or not it works, goddamn it’s woo adjacent.... Sumerian Creation Texts, Intervention Theory, and Human Origins
Lloyd Pye (1946 to 2013) was an American writer. He argued that humans were not the product of Darwinian evolution. He called his view Intervention Theory. In that view, beings known as the Anunnaki genetically engineered modern humans.... - Satinleader...
Placebo effect vs. pseudoscience in health
Placebos can be effective especially to find out if a treatment actually is effective or not, or if the idea of the treatment is just as effective as the actual treatment....