there is also no rational incentive to lie about a recovery besides ridiculous conspiracy theories that they lied to trick people into trying a regimen.
We have been through this before. This is both rational and has happened before. And, of course, people lie on the internet all the time for various other reasons, including scamming, trolling and a sad desire for “fame”. It’s incredibly naive to take stories from anonymous users on an internet forum at face value.
It is pretty rational to assume that some people prefer other people to take risks that they are not willing to take themselves.The incentive/motive is entirely obvious: reap the benefits without having to endure potential downsides. It is risk outsourcing. It makes a lot of sense and is pretty much what most people here do who are happy to read experiences from other people, while not taking any risks themselves. That is understandable.
Now add desperation/immorality and some people will think they can trick people into taking the risk by pretending they had a positive experience on the drug. Again, this may be morally corrupt, but it is pretty logical:
a) “I have PFS and I want to treat it.”
b) “I think “XY” may have benefits in treating PFS.”
c) “I am afraid to try “XY”, because I could get worse.”
d) “Whenever people post positive experiences on the forum, other people immediately jump on the bandwagon and try the same thing.”
e) “If I pretend to have had a positive experience from XY”, people will try it and report their experiences. I will then have more information about whether “XY” can help with XY without taking any risk".Again, this is entirely logical, albeit morally corrupt. Your argument that there is no rational incentive is clearly wrong.
This is also not a “wild theory” or “conspiracy theory”. A person being an opportunistic a****** is hardly a wild theory. And if that’s the weakest “conspiracy theory” you’ve read, it is probably the first. You realize that there are people out there who think almost all scientists and governments around the world including hundreds of thousands of people (many of them civilian) with different values, interests and allegiances have conspired to: a) fake a pandemic, so that a certain president looses an election, b) to hide the fact that the Earth is flat, c) to pretend the earth is warming to increase taxes etc.? Oh, and Lizard people!
So, a person being an opportunistic a****** and with an obvious incentive is not a “wild theory” and not a “conspiracy theory”. I mean, it literally cannot be a conspiracy theory as a conspiracy by definition involves multiple people. Nobody has suggested that PAL has colluded with anyone.
Now I think it is pretty obvious that there is a logical incentive to lie and that you have been wrong about there not being any such incentive. Your claims that this “theory” is particularly “wild” or “weak” are clearly wrong as well. But I’ll give you one more to end this right here.
This thing, you know, this “wild theory”, this thing without any “LOGICAL incentive”, that “wasn’t rational at all”, “one of the weakest conspiracy theories” you have read, is LITERALLY what happened on a PSSD forum, where a user admitted to have lied about positive benefits from a drug to trick people into taking it. It wasn’t the first time this happened there either and it has probably happened here, too.
I understand that people here are desperate and want to focus on the positives and ignore all the negatives, including negative effects from “treatments” and the idea that some users and their story may be fake to trick people, troll people or get money from people. But these things happen. Ignoring them will not make these things go away and leads to posts like this, where you take up a completely irrational stance and have been spectacularly wrong.
