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Case Study: The Medical Industrial Complex
ive placebos worked great because they triggered powerful hope and fear in their targets. And our present day civilization has many, many witch doctors. The medical industrial complex is a good example. Much of what the medical establishment does is hugely beneficial. Research, diagnostic tests, drugs, surgery, and trauma management have been wonderful blessings for mankind. But the medical industrial complex is also very big business. Researchers, medical staff, drug companies, and advertisers send out massive clouds of placebos, promising good things if you follow this research finding, take this drug, have this test, undergo that surgery. Bad things if you don’t. Part of the time the messages are blessings, supported
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