How do you give a placebo to a city?
Posted by skeptologic on May 6, 2008
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, something else totally wacko shows up. I had to create a new category called “Weird Crap” just for stuff like this. Someone has decided to perform acupuncture on the city of Portland, Oregon. Check it out here. Acupuncture doesn’t really work on people, I don’t think it will work on a city either. After all, how are you supposed to give a city the placebo effect?!
naontiotami said
Acupuncture’s pretty crazy, but what about feng shui? Would they have to relocate skyscrapers and dam rivers? I’m not sure that complementary urban medicine is going to catch on.
skeptologic said
Yea, we also have that kind of woo here in California. Believe it or not a few years ago one of our state legislators tried to introduce that feng shui nonsense into the California building standards code!