What’s absolutely insane about it is that we literally got here by accident. Some homeopathic crank was selling diluted poison water to people, so he created a double blind test to prove his “medicine” was actually better than doing nothing and telling someone they would feel better, which ended up proving him absolutely wrong conclusively along with creating the wellspring of all medical advancement in the last century.
Behind the bastards did a series on the guy who invented this, and how he was a charlatan who’s only achievement was creating the means of proving himself wrong lmao Added a link if you want to check it out
I joined .world because that was the one recommended to me when I left reddit but as far as I’m aware none of my posts or comments have ever been removed, nor have I gotten any mod mail or warnings so… idk.
Lemmy has been infinitely more open to expression without restriction. Even if one of the instances are ban happy tankies at least I don’t get a sitewide IP ban for correctly pointing out the hypocrisy of worldnews mods allowing genocidal rhetoric as long as it’s against Arabs.