Who are the fire-tamers?

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mguerville

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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spacington

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.

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danw1979

> Questions inundate my mind: was it real?

No.

> Did Mme Abgrall cure the warts?

No, that was your daughter’s immune system.

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selimthegrim

I was in France for a wedding recently and I saw traiteur on the side of one of the vans pulled up. I remarked to the staff that in Louisiana French, traiteur/traiteuse means folk healer, and they told me it was just the caterers.

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brohee

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.

philipallstar

Praise the Sun \o/

busssard

apparently my granddad was afiretamer, but he dies before i got to know him

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