#Charlatanes

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Razones para el éxito de charlatanes en la web:

Testimonios y pruebas sociales: Los charlatanes pueden recurrir al argumento anecdótico (falacia de evidencia anecdótica), una especie de falacia de confirmación, que selecciona testimonios aislados como “prueba” para generalizar y legitimar sus contenidos, el caso de las experiencias personales: “Me curé por el dióxido de cloro, por lo tanto, funciona porque me funcionó”, aunque la recuperación se deba al funcionamiento del sistema inmunológico y no al desinfectante dióxido de cloro; uso de falsos testimonios o manipulados para crear una ilusión de legitimidad y de éxito. Los “testimonios” o “historias de éxito”, como en esos “libros temáticos para hacer riquezas”, pueden ser manipulados y convencer, ganar credibilidad entre los seguidores. Las pruebas de efecto placebo social pueden cambiar la percepción de los usuarios y hacerles creer equivocadamente que dicha información o producto funciona y que el charlatán es una especie de “salvador mesiánico”. En la mente de los charlatanes, podemos suponer lo siguiente: “Podemos elegir un remedio mágico sabiendo que no tiene ningún impacto curativo, pero que nos reconforta porque nos activa el efecto placebo” (Moreno Castro, 2019, p. 25), pero lo compartimos a todos como una “verdadera cura” y que “nos ha funcionado, por lo tanto, crean en nosotros”, sabiendo que es un engaño; eso es una situación hipotética para entender el poder persuasivo de los argumentos anecdóticos.

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[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

imagine you're a priest and you know this local family pretty well, you've watched their kids grow up, you were at the daughter's wedding and you end up officiating at the youngest son's funeral following his defintely-not-a-suicide. then the night of said funeral the eldest son shows up drunk off his fucking ass, SCREAMING about how he needs a confession asap, and when you finally get him in the booth he delivers a Shakespearan monologue of apocalyptic self-loathing, capped with the revelation that he's a) homosexual and b) fully convinced he's fucked the Literal Devil. and before you can even wrap your head around that let alone figure out a solution, the "devil" in question breaks into your church, sets it on fire, rips you out of your confession booth, and fucking eats you in front of the altar, right before he and the guy you were trying to help get gay married over your still-warm corpse. rip Father Matthias, you were a real one.

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El regreso de los “charlatanes”

Por Joaquín Ramos López – 14 mayo 2023 Era yo niño, de no más de diez años, cuando me detenía al salir del colegio por la tarde, delante del tablado que él tenía montado en la plaza, un día a la semana, siempre el mismo. Yo disfrutaba durante un buen rato de la verborrea del conocido charlatán Quinito García, alumno aventajado y sucesor del no menos famoso León Salvador. Allí subido, sobre el…

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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. - Carl Sagan

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[3liza]

On the off chance you've come across this in your own medical research, my partner (POTS, joint hypermobility, ND) needs to crack/pop her joints several times an hour, especially her fingers, wrists, ankles and knees. She specifically remembers it starting when she was 16. It's not really a problem except that if she can't pop a specific joint the feeling develops into pain, and sometimes she just can't get it to happen for a few hours. Is this something you've heard of in connective tissue disorder literature? Doctors have been, as you would expect, totally useless about it, and while it seems harmless now...

this is off the cuff; i havent heard about this but it does just sound like one of those things that could theoretically happen to someone with weird joints. on the other hand joint "popping" is something most normal people also can do, and in the last research on joints popping in those (non-hypermobile) cases that i read (which was a while ago so maybe out of date), it was discovered that joint popping isn't really "doing" anything, it was just making a bubble of gas and a sound using a vacuum basically, but it seems to have a powerful somatic effect which is why chiropractors use it. it's also a really, really common stim for various ND people. i wouldnt assume your partner's joint popping is purely somatic/habitual though, who knows what's going on in there or how it differs from non-hypermobile people

my concern would be that in 99% of the cases of "weird human tricks" that hypermobile people can do, doing those weird human tricks will loosen and damage tissue further and doctors agree that you should absolutely not do them unless demonstrating a symptom to a doctor or something. i would be concerned about continuing the joint-popping habit for this reason. but at the same time, pain is a really strong indicator in the opposite direction. so who knows.

actually now that i type all this out i am reminded that when my neck or hip gets out of joint i have to pop them back into place. i dont know for sure that this is a subluxation (minor dislocation), because im not standing inside an xray when it happens, but thats what it feels like. i do know that this happens to a lot of hypermobile people. the problem with trying to search for the term, which is a real medical term, is that chiropractors (fucking again) have decided that everyone on earth gets subluxations (false) and also that chiropractors can heal every disease by "aligning" your skeleton with powerful blows (false, especially for hypermobile people, who should avoid chiropractors even more dedicatedly than normal people). this is bullshit and can be safely ignored. however, many hypermobile people do actually get minor dislocations frequently, because the connective tissue holding joints together just isnt doing its job. ribs are a really common one. for me its the neck tendons and femoral heads.

i dont think a doctor will have any idea what youre talking about. maybe a physical therapist would be more helpful though, even just to ask questions and see what they think about the "joint popping is possibly damaging my joints further" vs "not popping my joints causes pain" situation

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Path Through the Woods: The Charlatan

The Charlatan is always one step ahead of you, it seems. He has more intentions than he lets slip, and always has one hand behind his back.

The Charlatan represents the Voice of the Opportunist in Path Through the Woods. His foil is the Voice of the Faithful.

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Charlatan.

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The most persuasive wizard you've ever met

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Nutritional supplements and really nutrition in general is one of those areas where there are real scientifically-backed benefits that can make a huge difference for some people but it is unreasonably difficult for the average person to wade through all the snake oil and pseudoscience to find it.

[ponikopuffy]

(TW: racism) If you are a POC forsaken fan or/and trying to forgive her, you need to see this.

Just mind soul she made a video response talking her side of her situation, the problem was revealed that she wrote something super racist in her search on YouTube

(this is a screenshot from her response livestream)

Some people find out about this, and their response? Well she's just making excuses without proof

And I understand that people will defend "BUT SHE IS INNOCENT, SHE HAD NO BAD INTENTIONS", i'm gonna be honest, is this a good respons to you? Becuese i'm gonna explaind why this is wrong.

This comment is literally "I'm not racist, I have black friends" and if this were true, she is still racist. Another problem is that she never says sorry, which is very ignorant.

It doesn't matter whether she was aware or not, she is not taking responsibility. And she should not be defended.

I don't hate her, and I believe she can change, but the fact that she is denying taking responsibility is very concerning.

By the way, if you like forsaken and you still like it, that's fine, just stop supporting it and playing fan games instead.

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You will address me with due deference.

Dame Aylin at Ramazith's Tower about to break a man in half, with the exact amount of haughty disdain the situation warrants.