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Placebification

The act of explaining any positive effect from non‑conventional treatments (acupuncture, meditation, prayer, herbalism) as “just placebo.” Common in hard‑narrow scientism and anti‑pseudoscience activism. Placebification dismisses both patient reports and physiological measurements that show real effects (e.g., acupuncture for pain). It treats placebo as a dismissive label, ignoring that placebo effects are genuine, clinically relevant, and deserve study. It also ignores that many approved drugs have small effect sizes above placebo.
Placebification Example: “She experienced pain relief from acupuncture; he placebified it as ‘just placebo, so it doesn’t count.’ He didn’t realize that placebo is a real, measurable, ethical treatment response.”
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Planetification

Making a joke about femboys out of a persons sentence, Mostly to annoy them.
Person 1: *sends a gif of IShowSpeed reading ancient spell from a paper*
Person 2: Person 1 trying to read the spell that summons femboys
Person 1: stop doing Planetification, it pisses me off
Planetification by Gennnnnnnn April 4, 2026
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