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malatela's avatar

"Sympathetic vomiting" is a probably specifically evolved. Our hunter gatherer ancestors would have been frequently poisoned and if you all ate the same leaf and one of you starts vomiting, probably best for all the rest of you to start vomiting too.

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Brian Finney's avatar

During Covid the use of psyops was prevalent was this rash event an experiment in psyops, given that no other explanation is available, it was wide spread in discrete areas, effectively harmless and limited to a specific age range? If it was psyops research we will never know, unless you are in the military.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-cV5WUuyB4

Dr Robert Malone explores how psychological operations (psyops) have evolved from military tools into mechanisms for shaping public perception, especially during global crises. He argues that governments and institutions increasingly use fear, censorship, and behavioral manipulation to enforce compliance and suppress dissent.

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Y Foss's avatar

The students developed symptoms of a rash when in school, which dissipated when they went home. “Strangely, none of the family members of affected children were reported to have been troubled by this seemingly contagious affliction.”

This would appear to be firm evidence against a “conceptagion” or indeed any contagion – whether physical or psychological. If an illness can be spread by an idea or an emotion, why didn’t it spread to families when the children got home? What evidence was gathered in these cases to support the hypothesis that it was psychosomatic?

The same rigour should be applied to potential psychological causes as to physical causes. The peril is greater that potentially harmful pathogens are overlooked, while illnesses are wrongly assumed to be psychosomatic. You need only look at the harm done to people with ME to see the dangers of such pseudoscience.

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