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Partially in rheumatology, where we don’t have a large battery of fully defined tests for all illnesses.
This is all still "what if's", but the tail end's are truly F'd beyond our ability to fix.
If you can say "Oh yea that makes sense" with the same set of knowledge you had both before and after some event happens, all else being equal, you have an expectation. That is enough for placebo.
You have to have literally 0 knowledge about an event to rule out placebo.
The reverse is true for meme stocks as well. You can buy a stock because you expect it to go up without any real opinion on the business.
Though we all know the opinion on the business. Great science project, bad business.
That doesn’t matter. That’s fundamentally different than the president selling access to himself.
If there’s not a eureka moment of knowledge, should we do nothing?
The same can be said of the "Great Man Theory" (or its adaptation by selecting immigrants based on some selected set of skills). You don't know that you're making society better, you're just selecting for a certain set of skills.
> The American melting pot works well (or worked well) because it was a nation made up from a blank canvas with no prior historically established dominant ethnicity or culture the kind other nations have had going for millenia.
This isn't true and it ignores the cultural differences amongst all of the original colonists (religious, language, political, and country of origin). That's before you even consider the stark differences in culture between the Native Americans and the European colonist.
The Mormons of Utah, the Cajun/French of Louisiana, the Norwegians in the Dakotas, the Scotch Irish of everywhere, and the Amish are all (non-brown) examples of enclaves existing in the US. Nobody says that they are not assimilating well. We let them live their lives because personal liberty used to be a thing here.
Skilled polish engineers don't want to be the only polish person in the entire country. They want food, culture, community that reminds them of home. Even as they assimilate. That's why the American melting pot works well. It encourages enclaves that touch one another.
China is the opposite of that. You are hard hammered into the Han-ness, immediately. The language, the writing (which is a HUGE hurdle), the food, the way of life.
China is also objectively becoming more closed, not more open.
3k for everything else. I’m not going to sit and itemize, but I could very easily see 3k getting eaten (figuratively)