> Rubber bands to stop being Car sick

I could almost manage to reserve judgement on that one. Almost.
The ones I saw long ago had a metallic lump with a dull point that
pressed against a specific area on the inner wrist.

I'd rate it as 99.99...% likely that this does nothing useful BUT I've
seen accupuncture and variants work reasonable miracles for some, and
placebo and all its friends notwithstanding, it would be wiser to be
very very very very sceptical of *some* things than adamantly certain
they were fraudulent.

I've never had accupuncture myself - just been suitably impressed at
the quality of placebo it can generate. When placebo gets strong
enough consistently enough Occam starts tapping you on the shoulder
and suggesting that you at least think about it.

Real placebo is a strong and valuable drug and not to be sneezed at.*
More effective than valium in some trials. Definitely a real effect
even when it's not.

Anyone who can manage to get their brains to believe that some
universe somewhere (not necessarily this one) "just happened" out of
true nothingness, or that some universe of some sort has  "just
existed forever" (ie no "first cause") is on very very very dangerous
grounds in attempting to reject some of the more plausible placebo
generators. [[If that sounds like religion, it's not per se - its just
that science has more trouble with its boundary conditions than many
accept and/or realise]].


   Russell

* may not work for sneezing?
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