That's one more reason to get rich - to save mankind from itself.
Yet, I think that, even in our skepticism, we must keep our minds open and don't forget that we must impose high standards on ourselves too. It's not enough to say homeopathy is a farce and faith cures are a joke when the more accurate statement would be that both illustrate how placebos work. Our brains are not capable of producing perfect reasoning all the time: reasoning evolved to help us elude predators. We could have ended up very inconspicuous, with better muscles, claws and teeth or being extremely allergenic - all popular ways to deal with other animals.
And, for the record, I'm all in for homeopathy and faith cures - they may help remove some undesirable genetic traits from the gene pool. OTOH, the populations presenting such traits can evolve to have better immune systems. Life has a way to perpetuate itself.
> And, for the record, I'm all in for homeopathy and faith
> cures - they may help remove some undesirable genetic
> traits from the gene pool. OTOH, the populations presenting
> such traits can evolve to have better immune systems. Life
> has a way to perpetuate itself.
Further, look no further than the anti-vaccination movement to see how harmful medical ideas can put the general population at a greater risk for entirely preventable diseases.