Vet RX

[Pythonfriend]

Any of you see the posts about it on redtailboas.com? I see a good few people saying super sick boas recovered 100% while using this stuff and even start eating again. Not arguing the fact that it has toxic chemicals in it from what y'all are telling me, just trying to figure out if it works and if so if it has any bad symptoms to it what so ever.

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all quackery has testimonies that back it up, always. Honest, well-intended testimonies, im not saying the testimonies in favor of the product are fake or something.

the thing is that most sick snakes, just like most sick humans, recover no matter what you do.

So if you use a product that is clearly not helpful and clearly only harmful, most snakes (or humans) will get better. In spite of it, not because of it. But that doesnt matter, positive testimony is produced anyway, especially in cases where the quackery product is the only one used. Snake got sick, this one product and nothing else was used, snake got better, people falsely conclude that the product did it, and there you have your testimonies.

It REALLY DOES HAPPEN that a snake gets a bad RI, a doctor appointment gets made, the product gets used, and the appointment can be cancelled because the snake makes a speedy recovery. But the same also does happen if you sprinkle some powdered sugar on your snakes cloaca when it gets RI, which might be cheaper and less harmful.

the whole point of evidence-based medicine, and of studies where you compare different treatments to each other and to placebo and to no treatment at all, is to get rid of such bias.

Without studies and trials, like it was 200 years ago, a medicine that does exactly nothing but also has no harmful side-effects (like for example homeopathy) is actually very good compared to the other more risky stuff (bloodletting, medicine containing mercury or other poisons, drilling holes in skulls, etc).