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  • If the beavers banded together and tried to exterminate humanity, they wouldn’t get as far as humanity would exterminating beaverkind. That’s domination: exerting your will on those around you to their detriment and not being deterred by their resistance, no?

    I don’t think that’s a fun competition or nice thing to consider, but there are few animals that could come close to beating us in that regard. Ants, termites, and bees are the first that come to mind for me, but there are probably other possibilities.

    Plants, fungi, and bacteria on the other hand… I don’t think we could really expect to win against the most ubiquitous examples of those.



  • Because of the placebo effect, all you really need for anything that’s not outright poison to have a positive effect on average is a convincing enough practitioner. Ideally people have narrow criteria for judging that, but it’s just so ripe for exploitation, every scammer can try a different tack, and some are bound to slip through.

    IMO, the solution is a system of tight regulations on the definition of medical advice and the qualifications required to dispense it. I can also see that this one specifically would be hard to legislatively prevent without training and licensing yoga teachers, for example.