>>12532320yes, here's a real world example:
in my country the national health service offers homoeopathy for free (or did offer, they might have stopped), which of course works no better than placebo.
But placebos actually work pretty well for treating many patients, especially if the symptoms are anxiety related or psychosomatic, and homoeopathic medicine is cheap and has no side effects because it's just water. Due to ethical reasons, doctors aren't allowed to proscribe placebo pills or sham therapies, but they can proscribe homoeopathy, which gives them a loophole enabling them to proscribe placebos where appropriate.
unfortunately reddit atheists don't understand this and at this point sperg about how homoeopathy is just water and doesn't do anything.
