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PainSci Updates · Jun 6, 2026

No imposition is too great for the credulity of men [30s]

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People don’t limit themselves to merely believing that absurd but harmless quackeries are actually effective medicine: the human capacity for wishful thinking is so potent that countless people throughout history have sworn by dangerous snake oils even as they were being slowly destroyed by them. “That’s how you know it’s working” is an easy rationalization. Consider this the next the time you…

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