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biophysboylast Friday at 6:31 PM1 replyview on HN

What should we do instead? They don't listen to evidence either


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RobotToasterlast Friday at 6:44 PM

Long term, we need far, far, more funding for research into treatments that actually work.

Even short term that could help, if people are accessing experimental treatments through clinical trials they won't be desperate enough to try fake treatments. The main reason people use alternative medicine is because conventional medicine has failed them, so they cling on to anything that will give them hope.