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One thing unchanged for 250 years: Americans' willingness to be deceived

One thing unchanged for 250 years: Americans' willingness to be deceived

C1๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด โ†’ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ English

September 18th, 2026

One thing unchanged for 250 years: Americans' willingness to be deceived

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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ English

America: the land of boundless opportunity.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ: ๋ฌดํ•œํ•œ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์˜ ๋•….

And at the same time: the land of suckers.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋™์‹œ์—: ํ˜ธ๊ตฌ์˜ ๋•….

Our unwavering belief that anything is possible โ€” whether grounded in reality or not โ€” helped this country become the world's largest economy.

๋ฌด์—‡์ด๋“  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ณ€ํ•จ์—†๋Š” ๋ฏฟ์Œ์€ โ€” ํ˜„์‹ค์— ๊ทผ๊ฑฐํ•˜๋“  ์•„๋‹ˆ๋“  โ€” ์ด ๋‚˜๋ผ๊ฐ€ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ตœ๋Œ€ ๊ฒฝ์ œ ๋Œ€๊ตญ์ด ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ผ์กฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

It has also led us, time and time again, to fall head over heels for swindlers and con artists.

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋˜ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ๊พผ๊ณผ ํ˜‘์žก๊พผ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ช‡ ๋ฒˆ์ด๊ณ , ๋˜ ๋ช‡ ๋ฒˆ์ด๊ณ  ํ‘น ๋น ์ง€๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Since so much is possible in America, who would dare to assert that the next new supplement, device, or program to come along could make you young, strong, and wealthyโ€”or all of these at once?

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ธฐ์—, ๋‹ค์Œ์— ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•  ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ๋‚˜ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ณ„ํš์ด ๋‹น์‹ ์„ ์ Š๊ณ  ๊ฐ•ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋ถ€์œ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋™์‹œ์— ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ๊ฐํžˆ ๋‹จ์–ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒ ๋Š”๊ฐ€?

In 1897, a Baptist minister persuaded us that his company could extract gold from the seawater near Lubec, Maine.

1897๋…„, ํ•œ ์นจ๋ก€๊ต ๋ชฉ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ”์ธ์ฃผ ๋ฃจ๋ฒก ์ธ๊ทผ ๋ฐ”๋‹ท๋ฌผ์—์„œ ๊ธˆ์„ ์ถ”์ถœํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์„ค๋“ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

A company called the Bailey Radium Laboratories, based in East Orange, New Jersey, launched a popular product named Radithor in 1925, advertising it as "a cure for the living dead" while claiming that it could restore vitality and treat erectile dysfunction.

๋‰ด์ €์ง€์ฃผ ์ด์ŠคํŠธ ์˜ค๋ Œ์ง€์— ์†Œ์žฌํ•œ ๋ฒ ์ผ๋ฆฌ ๋ผ๋“ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ๋ผ๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋Š” 1925๋…„์— ๋ผ๋””ํ† ๋ฅด๋ผ๋Š” ์ธ๊ธฐ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์ถœ์‹œํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ "์‚ด์•„์žˆ๋Š” ์ฃฝ์€ ์ž๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์น˜๋ฃŒ์ œ"๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ด‘๊ณ ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ํ™œ๋ ฅ์„ ํšŒ๋ณต์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ๋ฐœ๊ธฐ๋ถ€์ „์„ ์น˜๋ฃŒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

There was no gold in the seawater off Maine, nor did Radithor turn people into Adonises.

๋ฉ”์ธ์ฃผ์˜ ๋ฐ”๋‹ท๋ฌผ์—๋Š” ๊ธˆ์ด ์—†์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋ผ๋””ํ† ๋ฅด๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ์•„๋„๋‹ˆ์Šค๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ์ฃผ์ง€๋„ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.

It merely poisoned them with radiation.

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฐฉ์‚ฌ์„ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ๋“ค์„ ์ค‘๋…์‹œ์ผฐ์„ ๋ฟ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

As a result of Americans being duped by excessively audacious swindlers, their schemes have now become part of everyday language.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์ด ์ง€๋‚˜์น˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€๋‹ดํ•œ ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ๊พผ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์†์•„ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ„ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๊ณ„๋žต์€ ์ด์ œ ์ผ์ƒ ์–ธ์–ด์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

America gave us the Rattlesnake King, Clark Stanley.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ž˜ํ‹€์Šค๋„ค์ดํฌ ํ‚น, ํด๋ผํฌ ์Šคํƒ ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๋‹ค์ฃผ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

He sold what he called a "snake oil liniment," which he promised would cure "pain and lameness, rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, sprains, and bunions," treat "partial paralysis of the arms and lower limbs," and "reduce enlarged joints to their natural size."

๊ทธ๋Š” "๋ฑ€ ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ ๋„ํฌ์ œ"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋ฅด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ํŒ”์•˜์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” "ํ†ต์ฆ๊ณผ ์ ˆ๋ฆ„๋ฐœ์ด, ๋ฅ˜๋จธํ‹ฐ์ฆ˜, ์‹ ๊ฒฝํ†ต, ์ขŒ๊ณจ์‹ ๊ฒฝํ†ต, ์—ผ์ขŒ, ๊ฑด๋ง‰๋ฅ˜"๋ฅผ ์น˜๋ฃŒํ•˜๊ณ , "ํŒ”๊ณผ ํ•˜์ง€์˜ ๋ถ€๋ถ„ ๋งˆ๋น„"๋ฅผ ์น˜๋ฃŒํ•˜๋ฉฐ, "ํฐ ๊ด€์ ˆ์„ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ํฌ๊ธฐ๋กœ ์ค„์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค"๊ณ  ์•ฝ์†ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

America helped create Charles Ponzi.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ์ฐฐ์Šค ํฐ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์„ ์ฃผ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

He could offer a 50 percent return in just 45 days if you invested in postal reply coupons.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์šฐํ‘œ ์ฟ ํฐ์— ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๋ฉด ๋‹จ 45์ผ ๋งŒ์— 50%์˜ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

It is easy to laugh at or feel embarrassed by these old examples, but we should be careful: we are more willing than ever to believe claims that would look ridiculous with even a tiny bit of common sense applied.

์ด ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ์˜ˆ๋“ค์€ ๋น„์›ƒ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋ถ€๋„๋Ÿฌ์›Œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‰ฝ์ง€๋งŒ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์กฐ์‹ฌํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค: ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์•„์ฃผ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ƒ์‹๋งŒ ์ ์šฉํ•ด๋„ ์šฐ์Šค๊ฝ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์›Œ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์ฃผ์žฅ์„ ๊ทธ ์–ด๋А ๋•Œ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ธฐ๊บผ์ด ๋ฏฟ๋Š”๋‹ค.

Raw milk has special powers?

์ƒ์œ ์— ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ํž˜์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ ?

Peptides can make us young again?

ํŽฉํƒ€์ด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ Š๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ ?

A vitamin bomb via IV can wash away a hangover?

IV๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•œ ๋น„ํƒ€๋ฏผ ํญํƒ„์ด ์ˆ™์ทจ๋ฅผ ์”ป์–ด๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ ?

Why do we constantly fall for such things?

์™œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์— ๋น ์ ธ๋“œ๋Š”๊ฐ€?

There is a simple yet pitiful reason for this: "Human beings do not truly long for death."

์ด์—๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•˜๊ณ ๋„ ์• ์ฒ˜๋กœ์šด ์ด์œ ๊ฐ€ ์กด์žฌํ•œ๋‹ค: "์ธ๊ฐ„์€ ์ง„์‹ค๋กœ ์ฃฝ์Œ์„ ๊ฐˆ๋งํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค."

Dr. Lydia Kang, author of the book "Quackery," which deals with medical fads, and an associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, says as much.

์˜ํ•™ ์œ ํ–‰์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์ฑ… "๋ŒํŒ”์ด"์˜ ์ €์ž์ด์ž ๋„ค๋ธŒ๋ž˜์Šค์นด ๋Œ€ํ•™ ์˜๋ฃŒ์„ผํ„ฐ ๋‚ด๊ณผ ๋ถ€๊ต์ˆ˜์ธ ๋ฆฌ๋””์•„ ๊ฐ• ๋ฐ•์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

Beneath the surface lies a sense of desperation.

๊ทธ ์ด๋ฉด์—๋Š” ์ ˆ๋ฐ•ํ•จ์ด ๊น”๋ ค ์žˆ๋‹ค.

"Everyone harbors a deep longing to live a long, rich life free of disability or pain, with their mind intact," she says.

"๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ์žฅ์• ๋‚˜ ํ†ต์ฆ ์—†์ด, ๋‡Œ๊ฐ€ ์˜จ์ „ํ•œ ์ฑ„๋กœ ๊ธธ๊ณ  ํ’์š”๋กœ์šด ์‚ถ์„ ์‚ด๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ๊นŠ์€ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์„ ์ง€๋‹ˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

Other experts say that there are sociological and evolutionary reasons behind our attraction to bizarre and even disproven claims.

๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ๊ธฐ์ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ๋ฐ˜์ฆ๋œ ์ฃผ์žฅ์— ๋Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฐ์—๋Š” ์‚ฌํšŒํ•™์ , ์ง„ํ™”์  ์ด์œ ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

Of course, this is not a phenomenon unique to the United States.

๋ฌผ๋ก  ์ด๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—๋งŒ ๊ตญํ•œ๋œ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ํ˜„์ƒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

However, these instincts and tendencies have a tendency to be amplified even further in the United States.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ณธ๋Šฅ๊ณผ ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ํ•œ์ธต ๋” ์ฆํญ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Relentless optimism, an individualistic spirit, lightly regulated capitalism, a desperate ambition to become wealthier, healthier, or more beautiful, and a desire to join in behavior born of suspicion โ€” others have clearly exploited the system, so why shouldn't I?

๋Š์ž„์—†๋Š” ๋‚™๊ด€์ฃผ์˜, ๊ฐœ์ธ์ฃผ์˜ ์ •์‹ , ๊ฐ€๋ณ๊ฒŒ ๊ทœ์ œ๋˜๋Š” ์ž๋ณธ์ฃผ์˜, ๋” ๋ถ€์ž๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•ด์ง€๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋” ์˜ˆ๋ป์ง€๋ ค๋Š” ์ ˆ๋ฐ•ํ•œ ์•ผ๋ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜์‹ฌ์—์„œ ๋น„๋กฏ๋œ ํ–‰๋™์— ๋™์ฐธํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์š•๊ตฌ โ€” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ์•…์šฉํ–ˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ, ์™œ ๋‚˜๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋˜๋Š”๊ฐ€?

"It's a kind of wild-west cowboy situation," Kang said.

"๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ผ์ข…์˜ ๊ฑฐ์นœ ์„œ๋ถ€ ์นด์šฐ๋ณด์ด ์ƒํ™ฉ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฐ•์€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"People think, 'Well, if you won't do it, I'll do it myself.'"

"์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ '๊ธ€์Ž„, ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ์•ˆ ํ•  ๊ฑฐ๋ฉด, ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ง์ ‘ ํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค'๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

The act of clinging to a claim, or holding fast to a belief even after it has been disproven, is not necessarily foolish.

์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ์žฅ์— ๋น ์ง€๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋ฐ˜์ฆ๋œ ์ดํ›„์—๋„ ์‹ ๋…์„ ๊ณ ์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ์–ด๋ฆฌ์„์€ ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

According to Tali Sharot, a professor of neuroscience at University College London, we do not hold beliefs in order to represent the world accurately.

๋Ÿฐ๋˜ ๋Œ€ํ•™์˜ ์‹ ๊ฒฝ๊ณผํ•™ ๊ต์ˆ˜์ธ ํƒˆ๋ฆฌ ์ƒค๋กฏ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์‹ ๋…์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Instead, she said, it is simply "about holding the beliefs that will give us the most reward and help us avoid harm."

๋Œ€์‹ , ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ "์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋งŽ์€ ๋ณด์ƒ์„ ์ฃผ๊ณ  ํ•ด๋ฅผ ํ”ผํ•˜๋„๋ก ๋„์™€์ค„ ์‹ ๋…์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"And sometimes those beliefs are accurate, but sometimes they are not."

"๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ๊ทธ ์‹ ๋…์ด ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค."

For instance, she said that overconfidence can help you secure a spouse or a job for which you are not qualified.

์˜ˆ์ปจ๋Œ€, ๊ณผ์‹ ์€ ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ์ž๊ฒฉ์ด ์—†๋Š” ๋ฐฐ์šฐ์ž๋‚˜ ์ง์—…์„ ์–ป๋„๋ก ํ•ด์ค€๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

By believing what others in a group believe, people can gain a sense of community, support, and belonging.

์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ง‘๋‹จ์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋ฏฟ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฏฟ์Œ์œผ๋กœ์จ ๊ณต๋™์ฒด ์˜์‹, ์ง€์›, ์†Œ์†๊ฐ์„ ์–ป์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

"If it is a false belief, it doesn't matter," Sharot said.

"๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ฑฐ์ง“ ์‹ ๋…์ด๋ผ๋ฉด, ์ƒ๊ด€์—†๋‹ค"๊ณ  ์ƒค๋กฏ์€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Believing that vaccines cause autism, despite conclusive evidence to the contrary, provides families and loved ones with someone to blame and allows them to receive support from a group that shares their anger, fear, and pain.

๋ฐฑ์‹ ์ด ์žํ์ฆ์„ ์œ ๋ฐœํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€, ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒฐ์ •์ ์ธ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋น„๋‚œํ•  ๋Œ€์ƒ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋ถ„๋…ธ์™€ ๋‘๋ ค์›€, ๊ณ ํ†ต์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ง‘๋‹จ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ง€์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์ค€๋‹ค.

Moreover, hope and belief can foster an optimism that circumstances may improve, which can at least temporarily enhance one's mood and mental health.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํฌ๋ง๊ณผ ๋ฏฟ์Œ์€ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ๊ฐœ์„ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋‚™๊ด€์ฃผ์˜๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ ์–ด๋„ ์ผ์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋ถ„๊ณผ ์ •์‹  ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

"Believing that your future will be better than your past and present โ€” even if your future does not actually improve โ€” can often be the optimal choice," Charlotte remarked.

"๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๊ฐ€ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์™€ ํ˜„์žฌ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋‚˜์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ โ€” ๋น„๋ก ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๊ฐ€ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๋‚˜์•„์ง€์ง€ ์•Š๋”๋ผ๋„ โ€” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ตœ์ ์˜ ์„ ํƒ์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ์ƒค๋กฏ์€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The lottery almost invariably causes you to lose your money โ€” it is a financially terrible decision.

๋ณต๊ถŒ์€ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์˜ˆ์™ธ ์—†์ด ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ๋ˆ์„ ์žƒ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค โ€” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์žฌ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋”์ฐํ•œ ๊ฒฐ์ •์ด๋‹ค.

People are aware of this.

์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ธ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

However, they also know that a single lottery ticket is a small fragment of hope and an opportunity to imagine a wealthier future.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋™์‹œ์— ๋ณต๊ถŒ ํ•œ ์žฅ์ด ์ž‘์€ ํฌ๋ง์˜ ์กฐ๊ฐ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋ถ€์œ ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์ƒ์ƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๋˜ํ•œ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

"What you are definitely buying is the fun of thinking about it," she said.

"๋‹น์‹ ์ด ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ์žฌ๋ฏธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"That is what you can definitely get."

"๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์–ป์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

Our mindset operates in a similar way when it comes to supplements, ointments, and technologies that promise benefits with an extremely low likelihood of materializing.

์‹คํ˜„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๊ทนํžˆ ๋‚ฎ์€ ์ด์ ์„ ์•ฝ์†ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ, ์—ฐ๊ณ , ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋ฐฉ์‹์€ ๋น„์Šทํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ž‘๋™ํ•œ๋‹ค.

On the one hand, such things represent a tragic waste of hard-earned money and sometimes even give rise to side effects.

ํ•œํŽธ์œผ๋กœ, ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์€ ํž˜๋“ค๊ฒŒ ๋ฒˆ ๋ˆ์„ ๋น„๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ญ๋น„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ๋ถ€์ž‘์šฉ์„ ๋‚ณ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

On the other hand, as Charlotte put it, "you get something out of trying."

๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ•œํŽธ์œผ๋กœ, ์ƒค๋กฏ์ด ๋งํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด "์‹œ๋„ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์–ป๋Š”๋‹ค"๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

It's something like positive anticipation or excitement.

๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋‚˜ ํฅ๋ถ„๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

However, this tendency leaves room for exploitation by companies that want our money, and they are really good at what they do.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ž๊ธˆ์„ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์— ์˜ํ•ด ์ฐฉ์ทจ๋  ์—ฌ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋‚จ๊ฒจ๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์ด ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์„ ์ •๋ง ์ž˜ํ•œ๋‹ค.

Throughout American history, a clear pattern has taken hold: when a hint that something might work cracks the door open, companies seize the opening and rush in to grab hold of the desperation โ€” and the paychecks โ€” of people who are wounded, exhausted, and gripped by fear.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—ญ์‚ฌ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ํŒจํ„ด์ด ์ž๋ฆฌ ์žก๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค: ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœํœ˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์•”์‹œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌธ์— ๊ท ์—ด์„ ์—ด์–ด์ –ํžˆ๋ฉด, ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์ด ๊ทธ ํ‹ˆ์„ ํƒ€๊ณ  ๋ชฐ๋ ค๋“ค์–ด ์ƒ์ฒ˜๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์ง€์น˜๊ณ  ๋‘๋ ค์›€์— ์‚ฌ๋กœ์žกํžŒ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ์ ˆ๋ฐ•ํ•จ โ€” ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์›”๊ธ‰ โ€” ์„ ์›€์ผœ์ฅ”๋‹ค.

Dr. Benjamin Rush, a Philadelphia-born physician who signed the Declaration of Independence, was frustrated by his own inability to save people during the 1793 yellow fever epidemic.

๋…๋ฆฝ์„ ์–ธ์„œ์— ์„œ๋ช…ํ•œ ํ•„๋ผ๋ธํ”ผ์•„ ์ถœ์‹  ์˜์‚ฌ์ธ ๋ฒค์ €๋ฏผ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ ๋ฐ•์‚ฌ๋Š” 1793๋…„ ํ™ฉ์—ด๋ณ‘ ์œ ํ–‰ ๋‹น์‹œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ฌด๋Šฅํ•จ์— ์ขŒ์ ˆํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Afterward, he came across an autopsy report suggesting that purging and bloodletting might be beneficial.

๊ทธ ํ›„ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ •ํ™”์™€ ์‚ฌํ˜ˆ์ด ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ์‹œ์‚ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ€๊ฒ€ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

So he took it to an extreme.

์ด์— ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ทน๋‹จ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ€์–ด๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค.

He administered high doses of calomel and jalap โ€” a mercury compound and the powdered root of a Mexican plant, which together form an extremely potent laxative โ€” to the sick while aggressively draining their blood.

๋ณ‘์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋†’์€ ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰์˜ ์นผ๋กœ๋ฉœ๊ณผ ํ• ๋ผํ”„ โ€” ์ˆ˜์€ ํ™”ํ•ฉ๋ฌผ๊ณผ ๋ฉ•์‹œ์ฝ” ์‹๋ฌผ์˜ ๋ถ„๋ง ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ๋กœ, ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ทน๋„๋กœ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์™„ํ•˜์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” โ€” ๋ฅผ ํˆฌ์—ฌํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ํ”ผ๋ฅผ ๋นผ๋ƒˆ๋‹ค.

According to one account: "So much blood was spilled in the front yard that it stank and flies buzzed there."

ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ก์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด: "์•ž๋งˆ๋‹น์— ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ์€ ํ”ผ๊ฐ€ ํ˜๋ ค์ ธ ๊ทธ๊ณณ์€ ์•…์ทจ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜๊ณ  ํŒŒ๋ฆฌ๋“ค์ด ์œ™์œ™๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋‹ค."

Charles Stanley's snake oil was a fake โ€” in 1916, the United States Bureau of Chemistry revealed that it consisted mainly of mineral oil, containing "fatty oil (probably beef fat), chili pepper, and possibly traces of camphor or turpentine."

์ฐฐ์Šค ์Šคํƒ ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ฑ€ ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„์€ ๊ฐ€์งœ์˜€๋‹ค โ€” 1916๋…„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํ™”ํ•™๊ตญ์€ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋ฏธ๋„ค๋ž„ ์˜ค์ผ์ด๋ฉฐ "์ง€๋ฐฉ์œ (์•„๋งˆ๋„ ์†Œ ์ง€๋ฐฉ), ๊ณ ์ถ”, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์•„๋งˆ๋„ ์žฅ๋‡Œ๋‚˜ ํ…Œ๋ ˆ๋นˆ์œ ์˜ ํ”์ "์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

However, he got the idea from Chinese laborers who used oil from a very specific snake, which may have possessed some anti-inflammatory properties.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ํŠน์ •ํ•œ ๋ฑ€์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜จ ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ ์ค‘๊ตญ์ธ ๋…ธ๋™์ž๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋ฅผ ์–ป์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ทธ ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„์€ ์•„๋งˆ๋„ ์ผ๋ถ€ ํ•ญ์—ผ์ฆ ํŠน์„ฑ์„ ์ง€๋…”์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

Radiation had medical uses, and it still does.

๋ฐฉ์‚ฌ์„ ์€ ์˜ํ•™์  ์šฉ๋„๋ฅผ ์ง€๋‹ˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ง€๊ธˆ๋„ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•˜๋‹ค.

This paved the way for William J. A. Bailey to market his Radithor as a "health tonic" โ€” that is, until one prominent and enthusiastic customer overdosed, causing his jawbone to corrode and leading to his death from radiation poisoning.

์ด๋Š” ์œŒ๋ฆฌ์—„ J.A. ๋ฒ ์ผ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ผ๋””ํ† ๋ฅด๋ฅผ "๊ฑด๊ฐ• ๊ฐ•์žฅ์ œ"๋กœ ํŒ๋งคํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธธ์„ ์—ด์–ด์ฃผ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ โ€” ํ•œ ์ €๋ช…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์—ด์„ฑ์ ์ธ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ด ๊ณผ๋‹ค ๋ณต์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ํ„ฑ๋ผˆ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์‹๋˜๊ณ  ๋ฐฉ์‚ฌ์„  ์ค‘๋…์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ๋งํ•˜๊ธฐ์— ์ด๋ฅด๋ €์„ ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

Grey areas put regulators and public health experts in an awkward position: it is often difficult to assert that a particular measure is effective without research, especially when no one is willing to waste precious time and resources.

ํšŒ์ƒ‰ ์ง€๋Œ€๋Š” ๊ทœ์ œ ๋‹น๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋ณด๊ฑด ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์„ ๋‚œ์ฒ˜ํ•œ ์ž…์žฅ์— ๋†“๋Š”๋‹ค: ํŠนํžˆ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋„ ๊ท€์ค‘ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ์ž์›์„ ๋‚ญ๋น„ํ•˜๋ ค ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ์—†์ด๋Š” ํŠน์ • ์กฐ์น˜๊ฐ€ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋‹จ์ •ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋นˆ๋ฒˆํ•˜๋‹ค.

Meanwhile, companies are rushing in, each eager to get ahead of the others.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์ด์— ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์ด ์•ž๋‹คํˆฌ์–ด ๋›ฐ์–ด๋“ ๋‹ค.

Kang put it this way.

๊ฐ•์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"What is frightening is that they seize that hope, bottle it, and try to sell it off at whatever price they think you can afford."

"๋‘๋ ค์šด ์ ์€ ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ๊ทธ ํฌ๋ง์„ ์›€์ผœ์ฅ์–ด ๋ณ‘์— ๋‹ด์•„, ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ๊ฐ๋‹นํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์–ด๋– ํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด๋“  ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ํŒ”์•„๋„˜๊ธฐ๋ ค ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

Numerous supplements and unapproved "treatments" are based on potential benefits suggested by animal studies or small observational studies that cannot establish causation.

์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ์™€ ์Šน์ธ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ "์น˜๋ฃŒ๋ฒ•"์€ ๋™๋ฌผ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ์ธ๊ณผ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์ž…์ฆํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ์†Œ๊ทœ๋ชจ ๊ด€์ฐฐ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ ์ž ์žฌ์  ์ด์ ์ด ์‹œ์‚ฌ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์— ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Today, some longevity seekers are pinning their hopes on rapamycin, a drug administered to organ transplant patients, which has been shown to extend the lifespan of yeast, flies, and mice.

์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ์ผ๋ถ€ ์žฅ์ˆ˜ ์ถ”๊ตฌ์ž๋“ค์€ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ์ด์‹ ํ™˜์ž์—๊ฒŒ ํˆฌ์—ฌ๋˜๋Š” ์•ฝ๋ฌผ์ธ ๋ผํŒŒ๋งˆ์ด์‹ ์— ํฌ๋ง์„ ๊ฑธ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ํšจ๋ชจ, ํŒŒ๋ฆฌ, ์ƒ์ฅ์˜ ์ˆ˜๋ช…์„ ์—ฐ์žฅ์‹œํ‚จ ๋ฐ” ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Some of the most successful drugs, such as insulin and the weight-loss medications Wegovy and Zepbound, are peptides โ€” short chains of amino acids that can be assembled in countless configurations.

์ธ์А๋ฆฐ๊ณผ ์ฒด์ค‘ ๊ฐ๋Ÿ‰ ์•ฝ๋ฌผ์ธ ์œ„๊ณ ๋น„ ๋ฐ ์ ญ๋ฐ”์šด๋“œ์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด ๋งค์šฐ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ์•ฝ๋ฌผ ์ค‘ ์ผ๋ถ€๋Š” ํŽฉํƒ€์ด๋“œ, ์ฆ‰ ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์งง์€ ์•„๋ฏธ๋…ธ์‚ฐ ์‚ฌ์Šฌ์ด๋‹ค.

This has sparked an entire industry marketing other peptides โ€” largely unproven and untested โ€” that are purported to boost muscle growth, speed up recovery, and combat aging.

์ด๋Š” ๊ทผ์œก ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ , ํšŒ๋ณต์„ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋…ธํ™”์— ๋งž์„œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํŽฉํƒ€์ด๋“œ โ€” ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ์ž…์ฆ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ โ€” ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…ํ•˜๋Š” ์ „์ฒด ์‚ฐ์—…์„ ์ด‰๋ฐœํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Does that sound familiar?

์ต์ˆ™ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋“ค๋ฆฌ๋Š”๊ฐ€?

Of course, science and technology, along with this country's relentlessly churning economic engine, have produced countless genuine wonders and long-repeated anecdotes, which in turn have gently tilled the soil in which credulous thinking takes root.

๋ฌผ๋ก , ๊ณผํ•™๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์ˆ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด ๋‚˜๋ผ์˜ ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ๊ฐ€๋™๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์ œ ์—”์ง„์€ ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์ด์™€ ์˜ค๋ž˜ ํšŒ์ž๋˜๋Š” ์ผํ™”๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋ƒˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ ์‰ฌ์šด ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ๋‚ด๋ฆด ํ† ์–‘์„ ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค์ ธ ๋†“์•˜๋‹ค.

We can traverse the entire country in just a few hours aboard a flying metal tube.

์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋น„ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธˆ์† ๊ด€์„ ํƒ€๊ณ  ๋‹จ ๋ช‡ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋งŒ์— ์ „๊ตญ์„ ํšก๋‹จํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Through a small rectangle made of metal and glass, we can access virtually the entirety of human knowledge.

์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ธˆ์†๊ณผ ์œ ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง„ ์ž‘์€ ์ง์‚ฌ๊ฐํ˜•์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ธ๋ฅ˜ ์ง€์‹์— ์ ‘๊ทผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Advances in medicineโ€”especially vaccines, once a radical notionโ€”have nearly eradicated the childhood diseases that, at the time this nation was founded, killed up to half of all children before the age of five.

์˜ํ•™์˜ ๋ฐœ์ „, ํŠนํžˆ ํ•œ๋•Œ ๊ธ‰์ง„์ ์ธ ๊ฐœ๋…์ด์—ˆ๋˜ ๋ฐฑ์‹ ์€ ์ด ๋‚˜๋ผ๊ฐ€ ๊ฑด๊ตญ๋  ๋‹น์‹œ 5์„ธ ์ด์ „์— ์ตœ๋Œ€ ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜์˜ ์–ด๋ฆฐ์ด๋ฅผ ์ฃฝ์˜€๋˜ ์†Œ์•„ ์งˆ๋ณ‘์„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๊ทผ์ ˆํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

An American born in 1900 could expect to live only to the age of 47.

1900๋…„์— ํƒœ์–ด๋‚œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์€ ๊ฒจ์šฐ 47์„ธ๊นŒ์ง€ ์‚ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Life expectancy in the United States now stands at 79, the highest level ever recorded.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ ์ˆ˜๋ช…์€ ํ˜„์žฌ 79์„ธ๋กœ, ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์ตœ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด๋‹ค.

Who can say that it cannot double once again?

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋‘ ๋ฐฐ๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ๋งํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒ ๋Š”๊ฐ€?

Why should there be any limit at all?

์™œ ์–ด๋–ค ํ•œ๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”๊ฐ€?

We may be more vulnerable now than ever before.

์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ง€๊ธˆ ๊ทธ ์–ด๋А ๋•Œ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ์ทจ์•ฝํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

According to Kang, we are being exposed to increasingly seductive claims.

๊ฐ•์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ ์  ๋” ์œ ํ˜น์ ์ธ ์ฃผ์žฅ์— ๋…ธ์ถœ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

This is because the devices now in our pockets mean that an endless stream of hawkers (euphemistically called "influencers") are selling "cures" and other shortcuts on our 250-year-long journey in pursuit of happiness.

์ด์ œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ฃผ๋จธ๋‹ˆ ์†์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ๋“ค์ด ๋์—†๋Š” ํ๋ฆ„์˜ ํ–‰์ƒ์ธ๋“ค(์™„๊ณก์–ด๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ "์ธํ”Œ๋ฃจ์–ธ์„œ")์ด 250๋…„์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ํ–‰๋ณต ์ถ”๊ตฌ์˜ ์—ฌ์ •์—์„œ "์น˜๋ฃŒ๋ฒ•"๊ณผ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ์„ ํŒ”๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค.

Social media excels at mimicking the very type of message that scientists say our brains are most inclined to believe: direct, personal appeals from people who appear trustworthy and claim to have personal experience.

์†Œ์…œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด๋Š” ๊ณผํ•™์ž๋“ค์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋‡Œ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ ์‰ฌ์šด ์œ ํ˜•์˜ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๋ฐฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ํƒ์›”ํ•˜๋‹ค: ์‹ ๋ขฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์ธ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ์ง์ ‘์ ์ด๊ณ  ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์ธ ํ˜ธ์†Œ.

And in the United States, it can serve as a particularly appealing alternative to a healthcare system that is expensive, impersonal, and absurdly difficult to navigate.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋น„์‹ธ๊ณ  ๋น„์ธ๊ฒฉ์ ์ด๋ฉฐ ํ„ฐ๋ฌด๋‹ˆ์—†์ด ํƒ์ƒ‰ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์˜๋ฃŒ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํŠนํžˆ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ๋Œ€์•ˆ์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Even Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the nation's top health official, has endorsed and amplified the voices of those who promote or sell unproven treatments and wellness products.

๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ์ตœ๊ณ  ๋ณด๊ฑด ์ฑ…์ž„์ž์ธ ๋ณด๊ฑด๋ถ€ ์žฅ๊ด€ ๋กœ๋ฒ„ํŠธ F. ์ผ€๋„ค๋”” ์ฃผ๋‹ˆ์–ด์กฐ์ฐจ๋„ ์ž…์ฆ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์น˜๋ฃŒ๋ฒ•๊ณผ ์›ฐ๋‹ˆ์Šค ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์˜นํ˜ธํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๋Š” ์ด๋“ค์„ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์— ํž˜์„ ์‹ค์–ด์ฃผ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

These include vitamin A as a treatment for measles, peptides, and raw milk.

์—ฌ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ํ™์—ญ ์น˜๋ฃŒ์ œ๋กœ์„œ์˜ ๋น„ํƒ€๋ฏผ A, ํŽฉํƒ€์ด๋“œ, ์ƒ์œ ๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋œ๋‹ค.

"The safety mechanisms are currently switched off," Kang says.

"์•ˆ์ „์žฅ์น˜๊ฐ€ ์ง€๊ธˆ ๊บผ์ ธ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฐ•์€ ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

"It is actually worse than before.

"๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์ด์ „๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋‚˜์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This is because of social media, because of what is on the internet, and because the so-called trustworthy people from whom we are supposed to take advice are not trustworthy.

์†Œ์…œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์กฐ์–ธ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์—ฌ๊ฒจ์ง€๋Š” ์†Œ์œ„ ์‹ ๋ขฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์‹ ๋ขฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

And I believe that this puts the American public at a far greater risk."

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ €๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋Œ€์ค‘์„ ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ํฐ ์œ„ํ—˜์— ๋น ๋œจ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

George C. Parker, the great American con man who sold the Brooklyn Bridge โ€” more than once โ€” would have loved it.

๋ธŒ๋ฃจํด๋ฆฐ ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ โ€” ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ์ด์ƒ โ€” ๋งค๊ฐํ•œ ์œ„๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ๊พผ ์กฐ์ง€ C. ํŒŒ์ปค๋ผ๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ–ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

And he would have had a deal lined up for you.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‹น์‹ ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์ค€๋น„ํ–ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

Jonathan Feihi serves as Reporters' global health and science editor, and Reporters' health and science coverage receives financial support from a journalism fund for journalists and a private foundation.

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