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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 5 months ago

I'd say it's worse than placebo, because it's known by now that nothing of that shit has any chance to work yet there are still clinical trials with it. This takes away resources from things that have a better shot at working which imo makes it pretty unethical