Today the British Medical Association voted to call for the NHS to stop funding Homeopathy.
In a word, Yessss! My natural indifference to seeing stupid people being defrauded of money via their stupidity tends to not quite work the same when the stupid people in question are civil servants or government ministers spending other people's money.
One could point out that homeopathy (a word my spellcheck quite rightly fails to recognise) offers some psychological benefits to some people via the placebo effect, and that just being able to play pretend doctors with someone who lends a sympathetic ear to their problems is of great benefit to many people, but I would argue that such people are stupid people who live in fairy make-believe land and evidence-based pain and suffering are deeply therapeutic for a case of the stupids.
Today, I am more bitter than Bitrex, a fine practical example of the use of negative re-enforcement in the treatment of stupidity.
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