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Who are the fire-tamers?

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Re: Who are the fire-tamers?

#7
Since data is now the plural of anecdote... Frenchman here. Someone I knew fell from his bike without appropriate gear and ended up in the burn ward. His wife was very into the fire tamer thing and sent him a few practitioners...

He took the morphine.

On another note, I had respect for Aeon as a publication, and now I got a lot less.

Re: Who are the fire-tamers?

#8
Never forget:

For all the little bit of positive results for a placebo there are also negative effects due to noceboeffect.

Also it's very common in esoterica that if it works it was the healer if it didn't it was something you did wrong.

Re: Who are the fire-tamers?

#9
post #3

> Questions inundate my mind: was it real? No. > Did Mme Abgrall cure the warts? No, that was your daughter’s immune system.

Gaffa tape works wonders, especially on verrucas. Genuinely. It's like magic.

I assume you meant Gaffer tape?

Re: Who are the fire-tamers?

#10
My dad went to one when his cancer entered the terminal phase, I think he knew it was bullsh*t but it was a more human « treatment » than everything else he went through so he liked it. I still think it was a charlatan preying on him but I guess no more amoral than crystals moms and essential oils MLMs.
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