Brandolini’s law (or the bullshit asymmetry principle) is an Internet adage coined in 2013 by Italian programmer Alberto Brandolini. It compares the considerable effort of debunking misinformation to the relative ease of creating it in the first place. The adage states:
The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
The challenge of refuting bullshit does not come just from its time-consuming nature, but also from the challenge of defying and confronting one’s community.
The trouble with a placebo is you have to half believe it might be working, so they don’t want to think too much about it, and get sad (expressed as anger) if you ask them to, in case you harsh their buzz / rain on their parade / piss on their chips etc.
? I’m confused… What does my post have to do with placebo? I know the placebo effect and how double blind studies work. But it has little to do with that statement that proving a claim should be the requirement instead of requiring proof of a negative.
If I claim you’re an armadillo, proof should be on me to provide evidence of you being an armadillo. You shouldn’t have to prove you are not one. Any claim on anything with no evidence to show it is true should be discarded.
It has nothing to do with placebo.
It’s the problem with something that relies on belief. They resent being asked to prove it because their own doubt may make it stop working. Generally religion is a mental health aid