#sham

jjc@societas.online

#acupuncture Tops #sham for Easing #ptsd in Combat #veterans — Large #treatment effect observed for clinical and biological measures of combat-related PTSD

There was also a significant pretreatment to post-treatment reduction in fear-conditioned extinction, which was assessed by a fear-potentiated startle response -- a sudden blast of air paired with a certain image, such as a blue box -- in the group receiving verum acupuncture versus the sham group, and a significant correlation (r=0.31) between symptom reduction and fear extinction.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/anxietystress/108851
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2814938

bkoehn@diaspora.koehn.com

Several major crypto firms have collapsed over the past year, but Bankman-Fried and his team were supposed to be the adults in the room, trying to legitimize crypto by rehabilitating its reputation as a stubbornly immature sector. But it turns out that there are no adults, and no room.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/sam-bankman-fried-bankruptcy-crypto-ftx/672104/

#crypto #sham #scam #damn

mikhailmuzakmen@pod.geraspora.de

#politics #war-crying #propaganda #sham #values-community #media
...and I will post it every day now. Until everyone gets it:

"International politics is never about democracy or human rights. It's about the interests of states. Remember that, no matter what they tell you in history class."

  • Egon Bahr (SPD, Federal Minister for Special Tasks from 1972 to 1974 and Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation from 1974 to 1976)