Four: Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions
Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours
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Faith Healer
Theronos is not a great example of this, but i am extremely sceptical of these cases. We just have so many instances through history of people feeling like something as helped themd. In a sense, it has, but all its doing is giving them a plasebo effect to go like faith healers or religious staff. What's much harder to tell is, is your thri like, slightly better now, you know, over the next few months, or is that just like, random variation? And so i think what happens is, some of these things, a, don't work, but they can make you feel better momentarily, and then after that, id you happen
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