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Re:What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick? by srtjstjsj on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @10:13AM (#18399608)
How is it a shame that solvable problems are solved before unsolvable problems? The alternative would be NOT solving solvable problems.
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Re:What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick? by prophesi on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @10:35AM (#18399772)
Not sure how you construed that from my response, but regardless, I'd argue that tackling the "unsolvable" problems is still a worthwhile pursuit. The alternative would be not discovering germ theory or quantum mechanics (well, more relevant examples would be the realm of philosophy and psychotherapy).
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