Rachel Maddow renews her Pledge of the Med-School Creed

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I watch The Rachel Maddow Show, where she analyzes today's news and delivers her educated conclusions. A recent story she delivered reveals her 'schoolie'-leanings ... It's the story about that woman who tried to sell a "COVID-cure" (on the pattern of mountebanks' 'quick-silver' cures-for-everything ... I think the woman made similar claims about her product). https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9216063/Missouri-GOP-state-lawmaker-indicted-selling-fake-stem-cell-COVID-treatments.html And Rachel's report--mostly 'stating the case against the snake-oil salesman'--doesn't tell us if any of the customers were happy. Doesn't mention "placebo"---yes, that's often another word for 'fake medicine'; but it's also HOW REAL MEDICINES WORK sometimes, with people actually holding doctorate-degrees in "placebo." Stay in school long-enough, and you'll be 'hypnotized' into agreeing that "medicine isn't REAL medicine unless it's approved-of by degree-holding scientists (who probably wear glasses and lab-coats and stethoscopes etc.)" (That's 'hypnotized' the same way the KGB hypnotized Russians into believing 'how awesome Communism is'---repetition, caused when you constantly read a message in the media.) That doctors are not 'people who make others feel good' so-much as they're "people who've sat through all the classes & written a dissertation (or whatever else they do to earn the degree ... I don't think Rachel has a MEDICAL degree, but she does have at least one graduate-degree)."