Dannagal Young's essay "Holy Water Couldn’t Save My Husband. MAHA Wouldn’t Have, Either." (gift link) is a well-written and tragic essay about our powerful natural tendency to want to do something immediate — rather than study and learn and weigh evidence and build models and think probabilistically. The key point:

… Looking to magic and intuition for agency in a moment when science and medicine are frustrating is normal and human. But I worry that these normal human impulses are being exploited by powerful people who would rather a desperate wife carry a heart-shaped rock in her pocket than allow the government to support the very research that could actually treat or cure brain tumors like Mike’s. …

... alternatively, perhaps, in Toki Pona:

mi wile e pona
mi wile pali e ijo
taso pali nasa li lon wawa ala
sona suli li wawa

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