Malaysian clinic shut down because of paranormal activity

It's a shocker. Fortunately, in the west we don't have any institutions or people seeking to use for their own gain the predisposition of the gullible to believe superstitious nonsense.

Well, except the major religions, homeopaths, astrologers, mediums and fortune tellers, practitioners of Chinese medicine, writers of horror stories, casinos and bookmakers, the Loch Ness tourist industry, of course.

For those who cant read, this is basically a letter signed by Public health and safety officer at the district level of Malaysia , stating that there is sighting of ghost in a clinic and hence has to be shut down, including someone who saw an old women with long hair and long nails touching a patient.

Do you believe this?:

Homeopathy is so clearly a load of hocum and yet until fairly recently a state-supported service in the UK,

True, but, in defence of the NHS, the cost may have been justified by its success through the placebo effect (which can even work when the patient knows the only effect is a placebo).

True, but, in defence of the NHS, the cost may have been justified by its success through the placebo effect (which can even work when the patient knows the only effect is a placebo).

Shush clown - daddy's busy with some grown ups now. Here, have a snack:

And a brief pause and a slight smell of sulphur and then wallop, the ban hammer falls. Normal service resumes and TSR becomes once more the place of gentle badinage and civilised debate that it is so well known for.

Well I can't think of any other plausible explanation for a sighting of an old woman with long hair and nails other than that she is a SPOOOOPY GHOOOOST

Can you imagine sitting in a room and an old lady with long hair and nails appears out of thin air? I'd advocate for shutting down the clinic too lol

This happens to me regularly on the Overground.

True, but, in defence of the NHS, the cost may have been justified by its success through the placebo effect (which can even work when the patient knows the only effect is a placebo).

I'd prefer the NHS to spend money on medicine that actually works tbh not just a placebo.You are essentially saying that the NHS was justified in spending millions on water.Thats all homeopathy is really.Water.The only reason why it wasn't banned was because a certain Royal advocated for it.The very same royal who also talks to his plants.

not just a placebo.

If you can spend £1 and get a result worth £1.01 that you would not have got by spending nothing then the £1 was a worthwhile price to pay for the improvement.

.Instead of spending money on a placebo for an ailment you can spend it on a real medicine which actually cures the ailment

If you can spend £1 and get a result worth £1.01 that you would not have got by spending nothing then the £1 was a worthwhile price to pay for the improvement.

You fail to take account of the sad fact that an effective medicine or procedure is not available for all ailments in all circumstances.

Then we should spend taxpayer money on finding cures for those ailments through research.Not on giving patients false hope that their incurable illness can be cured.