[FRIAM] the cancellation arc

[Prof David West]

Well channeled glen.

RE: Steve Smith's electro-stim experimentation> 90% of what is known and written about such devices and the experiences they induce — far more than mere pain relief — can be found in a totally "non-respectable" domain — sex. For every TENS unit sold to someone like Steve, 10,000 are sold for sexual purposes.

The Bakken Museum in Minneapolis (by invitation only) has a wonderful collection of all the electrical devices invented and used for curative purposes — just about starting when Galvani twitched his first frog leg.

Aside: many of you have spoken of dream flying and at least one mentioned things like hang gliding / squirrel suits / etc.; bringing to mind my first (and only) hang gliding experience, from atop one of the monoliths in Rio to Copacabana Beach, tandem with a 90 lb / looked like she was 14  / female pilot, because tandem gliders have weight limits and I am not a small guy. 10 seconds of extreme terror until I realized that we were not plummeting; followed by a euphoria and conviction I was channeling a seagull.

davew


On Wed, Sep 15, 2021, at 3:46 AM, uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote:
> Well, I love Rebecca (and the rest of the hard-nosed skeptics) who 
> regularly trashes things like homeopathy 
> (https://skepchick.org/2021/09/us-politicians-want-less-regulations-on-snake-oil-medicine-during-a-pandemic/). But there's some confusion around "placebo" versus "non-specific" effects. This is especially true when the application of something like an "essential oil" or other tincture is _ritualized_. Trying to channel Dave, I would say that even if the tincture is diluted to nothing, its role as a ceremonial talisman might be critical to the non-specific effect induced, much like the white lab coat effect.
> 
> And even though this is tangential to cancel culture and hammering down 
> the nails that stick out, tangential doesn't mean inappropriate or 
> ill-fit-to-purpose. When some aliberal lefty shuts me down at the pub 
> for saying something off-the-cuff-misogynist to Renee', both my 
> misstatement and the lefty's shutdown are *real* things, to be 
> respected, not to be ignored. It's part of the contextual milieu we 
> swim around in.
> 
> What I find funny is the reaction I get from such people when they see 
> that I do take them seriously. It's amazing how an ordinary person 
> reacts when someone, like a clinician, actually sits down, listens to 
> the patient's in-context narrative, and engages ... something a Hopi 
> friend of mine once called "good medicine".
> 
> On 9/14/21 4:39 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
> > Regarding your /muscaria/fly agaric/ aspirations, I'm hearing something more like homeopathy or law-of-similars since the "fly" in /fly agaric/ comes from etymologically the habit of using it to poison flies by infusing it in milk to attract flies.    Maybe this is entirely a tangent (most of my observations here *are* tangents?).
> 
> 
> -- 
> "Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie."
> ☤>$ uǝlƃ
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