Can fake illnesses be made to sell fake cures?

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Its sounds totally possible to me that this has been done and can be done

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  2. abstractmodulemusic Avatar

    That’s basically Apple’s business model

  3. fleabeak Avatar

    You’re either a anti-vaxx mama with 7 kids all named Haileigh/Braxxton/etc or an old man who’s twice divorced and has to beg for any of his kids ro talk to him on the weekends.

  4. alldemboats Avatar

    chriproactors do it all the time…

  5. CinderrUwU Avatar

    It can easily be done. The hard part is more pulling it off without getting caught and arrested for biowarfare.

    Unless you have literally the entire medical world silenced somehow and even manage to completely change education so that no new chemists can test with the illness and find their own cures that it is actually real… and somehow stop the billion dollar industry of cures that would want to make money off of a real illness and then somehow manage to keep it a secret even through all of the people on their death bed…

    Yeah… no. it will never work.

  6. UltraRoboNinja Avatar

    That’s the business model for a lot of religions.

    Hey did you know there’s a place of eternal damnation that you can’t see or go to, but unless you do what we say and give us money, you’re gonna be trapped there forever when you die? It’s totally true because the book we wrote says so.

  7. CallingDrDingle Avatar

    Absolutely. Look how obesity was almost embraced for awhile. All that ‘healthy at any size’ bullshit. Now look at how many people are on GLP’s. It’s all orchestrated.

  8. nibbled_banana Avatar

    The American healthcare system is built to individualize a collective, societal conflict, ie capitalism and genocide, rather than addressing the root cause. If you slap a mental illness and disorder on someone, prescribe them meds, they are now subscribed to healthcare.

    So arguably, yes, you can sell fake cures. By neglecting to solve REAL problems, you can place bandaids on them with a label of “cured.”

  9. Phill_Cyberman Avatar

    Look up halitosis.
    This forgotten word was “rediscovered” by the owner of Listerine to seĺl their failed floor-cleaner as a mouthwash.

  10. slimricc Avatar

    Microbiotics for your micro biome, (your microbiome sustains itself) liver cleanses(your live cleanses, you do not need to cleanse it, just drink water) most supplements are essentially giant scams. Most are potentially harmful bc you are taking too much all at one time. Tell me why they always have a ton of sugar?

  11. marcus_frisbee Avatar

    It happens every day in pediatric medicine.

  12. steveinstow Avatar

    Detox drinks entered the chat…

  13. INSTA-R-MAN Avatar

    Yes. Hysteria in women was used as an excuse for a variety of “treatments” which included using sex toys and male doctors “appendages” as “cures” for it.

  14. Sad_Construction_668 Avatar

    The bigger problem historically has been people making money off of treatment, and fighting acceptance and distribution of the cure.

    For instance, Anne they found out TB could be cured with a regimen of three antibiotics, and you’d be cured forever, owners of TB sanitariums started questioning the science behind the antibiotics, and telling people not was healthier to live with TB than to take the antibiotics.
    Many type 1 diabetes research grants go into finding marginally better treatment options, but there is very limited funding going to some promising cure focused research.

    That doesn’t even get into the people that that dying from
    Measles is healthier that taking a vaccine shot.

    Most disease states are real, and we know they’re real because people expect th em before they’re described.

    Fake cures and ineffective treatments that make money for the providers but don’t help the patient at all are a much bigger and more pressing concern.

  15. LyndinTheAwesome Avatar

    Sure, look at all the people selling chrystals and blocks of epoxy resin against chemtrails.

  16. Silbylaw Avatar

    Of course. ADHD is the obvious one. No discernable or medically consistent diagnosis and they treat you with amphetamines.

  17. Silbylaw Avatar

    Of course. ADHD is the obvious one. No discernable or medically consistent diagnosis and they treat you with amphetamines.

  18. Teaofthetime Avatar

    Something something COVID. If you believe the nutters.

  19. mind_the_umlaut Avatar

    It’s done all the time. Look at intestinal “cleanses”, that’s a scam. Look at making people afraid that their houses smell, so those noxious smelly products are made to cover up a problem that doesn’t exist. How about crystals, aromatherapy, ‘supplements’, and homeopathy? All scams.

  20. MaybeSwedish Avatar

    Chronic Lyme infection. The infection is not chronic. There can be side effects of the acute infections that become chronic. Infusions of antibiotics after the infection is gone make less ethical medical professionals tons of $$

  21. Agformula Avatar

    The illness does not have to be fake. Most cough medicine in the U.S. only offer a placebo effect.

  22. Allie_oopa24 Avatar

    Like a placebo?

  23. Do_you_smell_that_ Avatar

    Yes. It’s not just illnesses, you can sell people peace of mind for any real or imagined threat. If you have time for a short story: https://cochranesfsophomores.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/foster-youre-dead.pdf

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster,_You're_Dead!

  24. cheekehbooty Avatar

    Yes most diseases

  25. MisterGerry Avatar

    Talk to a chiropractor.

  26. HungryAd8233 Avatar

    Herpes was pretty much one of these. It’s not dangerous or a big deal until there was a drug to treat it, and then a drug company made it a big shameful deal to sell pills to treat it.

  27. Muted_Cod_9137 Avatar

    Just look at the GOP. They live by this concept