Where it gets dangerous, is giving up actual real working medication in place of a placebo.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/02/woman-died-slapping-therapy-healer-sent-by-god-court-told

I agree. Placebos can help too.

Fact is, for it to work as a placebo, you need to believe it will work.

I've had a few coworkers who had stuff like crystals on their desk because their partner believed in it. I understand why that stuff happens, the believer who (supposedly) cares about your well-being, gets benefit from it, and wants you to have the same or similar benefits from the same. But since they're doing it to placate their partner and don't personally believe, it's just a rock on their desk.

And its been proven that placebos work.

So as long as you define life changing energy as a subtle psychological buff…

Allowing the crystal myths to continue only leads to more harmful behavior down the road. Sure, it can work as a placebo, but so can other things that don't tend to leave someone trusting unproven methods in lieu of proven ones.

Placebos don’t work. It’s a common misconception. Placebo effect is the error in measuring not any actual effect. It’s literally the barrier we use to define effective and non effective.

Anyone claiming they have something that provides a placebo effect to help is fraudulent or ignorant.

In the UK it is illegal to proscribe placebos. Because they don’t work.