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The one thing unchanged for 250 years: Americans' willingness to accept deception

The one thing unchanged for 250 years: Americans' willingness to accept deception

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September 18th, 2026

The one thing unchanged for 250 years: Americans' willingness to accept deception

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America: the land of boundless possibility.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ: ๋ฌดํ•œํ•œ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์˜ ๋Œ€์ง€.

And, simultaneously: the land of the gullible.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋™์‹œ์—: ํ˜ธ๊ตฌ์˜ ๋Œ€์ง€.

Our unwavering conviction that anything is possible, irrespective of whether any realistic basis exists for it, helped this country vault to the status of the world's largest economy.

ํ˜„์‹ค์  ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์œ ๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๋ง‰๋ก ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฌด์—‡์ด๋“  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ถˆ๋ณ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹ ๋…์€ ์ด ๋‚˜๋ผ๊ฐ€ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ตœ๋Œ€ ๊ฒฝ์ œ ๋Œ€๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ ๋„์•ฝํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ผ์กฐํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

It also caused us to fall, time and again โ€” and yet again โ€” for swindlers and charlatans.

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋˜ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ๊ธˆ ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ๊พผ๊ณผ ํ˜‘์žก๊พผ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฑฐ๋“ญ๊ฑฐ๋“ญ, ๋˜ ๊ฑฐ๋“ญ๊ฑฐ๋“ญ ๋น ์ ธ๋“ค๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.

In America, even if much is possible, who would dare to assert that the next new supplement, device, or scheme to come along could make you young, strong, wealthyโ€”or all of these at once?

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š”, ์„ค๋ น ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค ํ•˜๋”๋ผ๋„, ๋‹ค์Œ์— ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•  ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ๋‚˜ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ, ๋˜๋Š” ๊ณ„ํš์ด ๋‹น์‹ ์„ ์ Š๊ฒŒ, ๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ, ๋ถ€์ž๋กœ, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ•œ๊บผ๋ฒˆ์— ๋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 seawater off the coast near Lubec, Maine.

1897๋…„, ํ•œ ์นจ๋ก€๊ต ๋ชฉ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ”์ธ์ฃผ ๋ฃจ๋ฒก ์ธ๊ทผ ํ•ด์ˆ˜์—์„œ ๊ธˆ์„ ์ถ”์ถœํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค๋ฉฐ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์„ค๋“ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

A company called the Bailey Radium Laboratories, based in East Orange, New Jersey, launched a hit product in 1925 called Radithor, advertising it as "a cure for the living dead" while claiming that it restored vitality and cured impotence.

๋‰ด์ €์ง€์ฃผ ์ด์ŠคํŠธ ์˜ค๋ Œ์ง€ ์†Œ์žฌ ๋ฒ ์ผ๋ฆฌ ๋ผ๋“ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ๋ผ๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋Š” 1925๋…„ ๋ผ๋””ํ† ๋ฅด๋ผ๋Š” ํžˆํŠธ ์ƒํ’ˆ์„ ์ถœ์‹œํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ "์‚ด์•„์žˆ๋Š” ์ฃฝ์€ ์ž๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์น˜๋ฃŒ์ œ"๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ด‘๊ณ ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ํ™œ๋ ฅ์„ ๋˜์ฐพ์•„ ์ฃผ๊ณ  ๋ฐœ๊ธฐ๋ถ€์ „์„ ์น˜์œ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The seawater off Maine contained no gold, nor did Radithor transform people into Adonises.

๋ฉ”์ธ์ฃผ์˜ ํ•ด์ˆ˜์—๋Š” ๊ธˆ์ด ์กด์žฌํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ผ๋””ํ† ๋ฅด๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ์•„๋„๋‹ˆ์Šค๋กœ ๋ณ€๋ชจ์‹œํ‚ค์ง€๋„ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.

It merely poisoned them with radiation.

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

Americans have been so thoroughly taken in by scammers of an almost excessive audacity that their schemes have now become part and parcel of everyday language.

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

America bestowed upon us the Rattlesnake King, Clark Stanley.

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

He peddled a product he christened "Snake Oil Liniment," promising that it would cure "pain and lameness, rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, sprains, and bunions," remedy "partial paralysis of the arms and lower limbs," and "reduce enlarged joints to their natural size."

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

America also contributed to the birth of Charles Ponzi, who claimed that investing in postal coupons could yield a 50 percent return in a mere 45 days.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ์ฐฐ์Šค ํฐ์ง€์˜ ํƒ„์ƒ์—๋„ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•˜์˜€๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๋Š” ์šฐํ‘œ ์ฟ ํฐ์— ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ถˆ๊ณผ 45์ผ ๋งŒ์— 50%์˜ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

We are prone to deride or feel embarrassed by these anachronistic examples, yet we ought to be on our guard: we embrace claims that would appear absurd upon the application of even the most rudimentary common sense with greater alacrity than ever before.

์ด ์‹œ๋Œ€์— ๋’ค์ฒ˜์ง„ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋“ค์€ ์กฐ๋กฑํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋ถ€๋„๋Ÿฌ์›Œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹ญ์ƒ์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค: ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ทนํžˆ ๋ฏธ๋ฏธํ•œ ์ƒ์‹๋งŒ์„ ์ ์šฉํ•ด๋„ ์šฐ์Šค๊ฝ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋น„์น˜๋Š” ์ฃผ์žฅ์„ ๊ทธ ์–ด๋А ๋•Œ๋ณด๋‹ค๋„ ๊ธฐ๊บผ์ด ์‹ ๋ด‰ํ•œ๋‹ค.

Raw milk possesses extraordinary curative properties, does it?

์ƒ์œ ์— ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ํšจ๋Šฅ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ ?

Peptides can restore our youth?

ํŽฉํƒ€์ด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ๊ธˆ ์ Š๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ ?

An intravenous vitamin bombardment can utterly eradicate a hangover?

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

What is it that drives us to be perpetually consumed by such things?

๋ฌด์—‡์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ๊ธˆ ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์— ํ•จ๋ชฐ๋˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š”๊ฐ€?

There exists a simple yet pitiable reason: "Human beings do not truly yearn for death."

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

So says Dr. Lydia Kang, author of "Quackery," a book on medical fads, and an associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

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

Beneath that lies a sense of desperation.

๊ทธ ์ด๋ฉด์—๋Š” ์ ˆ๋ฐ•ํ•จ์ด ์ž๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

"Everyone harbors a deep yearning 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„ ์˜์œ„ํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ๊นŠ์€ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์„ ํ’ˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

Other experts contend that sociological and evolutionary motives exist which draw people toward bizarre and even discredited claims.

์—ฌํƒ€ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ๊ธฐ์ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ๋ฐ˜์ฆ๋œ ์ฃผ์žฅ์— ์ด๋Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์‚ฌํšŒํ•™์ ยท์ง„ํ™”์  ๋™๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์กด์žฌํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•œ๋‹ค.

Of course, this is not a peculiarity confined to the United States.

๋ฌผ๋ก  ์ด๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์— ๊ตญํ•œ๋œ ํŠน์ด์„ฑ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Yet these instincts and proclivities are amplified in America.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ณธ๋Šฅ๊ณผ ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์„ฑ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ฆํญ๋œ๋‹ค.

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

๋Š์ž„์—†๋Š” ๋‚™๊ด€์ฃผ์˜, ๊ฐœ์ธ์ฃผ์˜์  ์ •์‹ , ๋А์Šจํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ทœ์ œ๋˜๋Š” ์ž๋ณธ์ฃผ์˜, ๋” ๋ถ€์œ ํ•ด์ง€๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•ด์ง€๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋” ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›Œ์ง€๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ์ ˆ๋ฐ•ํ•œ ์•ผ๋ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜์‹ฌ์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•œ ํ–‰๋™์— ๋™์ฐธํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ์š•๊ตฌ โ€” ํƒ€์ธ๋“ค์ด ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ์•…์šฉํ–ˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ, ๋‚˜๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ด์„œ ์–ด์ฐŒ ๋ชป ํ•˜๊ฒ ๋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 just do it myself.'"

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

Committing oneself to a claim, or persisting in a belief even after it has been disproven, does not necessarily amount to folly.

์ฃผ์žฅ์— ๋ชฐ์ž…ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋ฐ˜์ฆ๋œ ์ดํ›„์—๋„ ์‹ ๋…์„ ๊ณ ์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„๊ฐ€ ํ•„์—ฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์–ด๋ฆฌ์„์€ ๊ฒƒ์— ๊ท€๊ฒฐ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

According to Tali Sharot, a professor of neuroscience at University College London, the reason we hold onto our beliefs is not so that we may represent the world accurately.

๋Ÿฐ๋˜ ๋Œ€ํ•™์˜ ์‹ ๊ฒฝ๊ณผํ•™ ๊ต์ˆ˜์ธ ํƒˆ๋ฆฌ ์ƒค๋กฏ์— ์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์‹ ๋…์„ ๊ฒฌ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊นŒ๋‹ญ์€ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ‘œ์ƒํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•จ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Rather, she declared, it is simply "a matter of holding beliefs that will mediate to bring us the greatest possible reward and to avoid harm."

๊ทธ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š”, ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ "์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์ตœ๋Œ€ํ•œ์˜ ๋ณด์ƒ์„ ์•ˆ๊ฒจ์ฃผ๊ณ  ํ•ด์•…์„ ํšŒํ”ผํ•˜๋„๋ก ๋งค๊ฐœํ•ด ์ค„ ์‹ ๋…์„ ๊ฐ–๋Š” ๊ฒƒ"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์–ธ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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

"๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ์‹ ๋…์ด ์ •ํ™•ํ•  ๋•Œ๋„ ์žˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๋•Œ๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค."

For instance, according to Sharot, overconfidence mediates an individual's acquisition of a spouse or a job for which they are not qualified.

์˜ˆ์ปจ๋Œ€, ์ƒค๋กฏ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ๊ณผ์‹ ์€ ๊ฐœ์ธ์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ๊ธˆ ์ž์‹ ์ด ์ž๊ฒฉ์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ”์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ์ž๋‚˜ ์ง์—…์„ ํš๋“ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋งค๊ฐœํ•œ๋‹ค.

By espousing the same beliefs as their fellow group members, people can secure a sense of community, support, and belonging.

์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ง‘๋‹จ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์›๋“ค์ด ์‹ ๋ด‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋ฅผ ์ž์‹ ๋„ ์‹ ๋ด‰ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ๊ณต๋™์ฒด ์˜์‹๊ณผ ์ง€์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์†Œ์†๊ฐ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

"Even if it is a false belief, that is of no consequence," she declared.

"๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ—ˆ์œ„ ์‹ ๋…์ด๋ผ ํ• ์ง€๋ผ๋„, ๋ฌด๋ฐฉํ•˜๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์–ธ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The belief that vaccines cause autism, notwithstanding the conclusive evidence proving the contrary, furnishes families and loved ones with an object of blame and affords them the support of a community that shares their anger, fear, and suffering.

๋ฐฑ์‹ ์ด ์žํ์ฆ์„ ์œ ๋ฐœํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‹ ๋…์€, ๊ทธ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์ž…์ฆํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฐ์ •์  ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋น„๋‚œ์˜ ๋Œ€์ƒ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋ถ„๋…ธ์™€ ๋‘๋ ค์›€, ๊ณ ํ†ต์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋Š” ์ง‘๋‹จ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ง€์ง€๋ฅผ ์–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์ค€๋‹ค.

Furthermore, hope and belief can improve mood and mental health โ€” at least temporarily โ€” by instilling an optimistic outlook that circumstances may improve.

๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€, ํฌ๋ง๊ณผ ๋ฏฟ์Œ์€ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ํ˜ธ์ „๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋‚™๊ด€์  ์ „๋ง์„ ๋ถ€์—ฌํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ โ€” ์ ์–ด๋„ ์ผ์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” โ€” ๊ธฐ๋ถ„๊ณผ ์ •์‹  ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•  ์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 in many cases be the optimal choice," Charlotte asserted.

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

Lottery tickets almost invariably squander your money โ€” it is an exceedingly poor financial decision.

๋ณต๊ถŒ์€ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ํ•„์—ฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ๊ธˆ์ „์„ ํƒ•์ง„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค โ€” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ง€๊ทนํžˆ ํ˜•ํŽธ์—†๋Š” ์žฌ์ •์  ๊ฒฐ์ •์ด๋‹ค.

People are cognizant of this.

์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ž๊ฐํ•œ๋‹ค.

Nevertheless, they are equally cognizant that a single lottery ticket constitutes a sliver of faint hope and an occasion to envision a more prosperous future.

๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ณต๊ถŒ ํ•œ ์žฅ์ด ๋ฏธ๋ฏธํ•œ ํฌ๋ง์˜ ํŒŒํŽธ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ’์š”๋กœ์šด ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์ƒ์ƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณ„๊ธฐ๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๋˜ํ•œ ์ž๊ฐํ•œ๋‹ค.

"What you are unequivocally purchasing is the pleasure of musing about it," she remarked.

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

"That is something you can unequivocally acquire."

"๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ํš๋“ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

Our mindset is no different when it comes to supplements, ointments, and technologies that promise benefits whose likelihood of materializing is exceedingly slim.

์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋ฐฉ์‹์€ ์‹คํ˜„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๊ทนํžˆ ํฌ๋ฐ•ํ•œ ํŽธ์ต์„ ์•ฝ์†ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ, ์—ฐ๊ณ , ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ์ด์™€ ๋‹ค๋ฅด์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค.

At first glance, they constitute a tragic squandering of hard-earned money and occasionally give rise to adverse side effects.

์ผ๊ฒฌ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์€ ๊ณ ์ƒํ•ด์„œ ๋ฒˆ ๋ˆ์„ ๋น„๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ญ๋น„ํ•˜๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ๋ถ€์ž‘์šฉ์„ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

Yet on the other hand, as Charlotte remarked, "one does gain something by trying."

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

Something such as positive anticipation or excitement, that is.

๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋‚˜ ํฅ๋ถ„๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋ง์ด๋‹ค.

Yet this propensity leaves ample room for exploitation by companies covetous of our money, and they perform what they do with truly exceptional skill.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ž๊ธˆ์„ ํƒ๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์— ์˜ํ•ด ์ฐฉ์ทจ๋  ์—ฌ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋‚จ๊ฒจ๋‘๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์ด ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์„ ์‹ค๋กœ ํƒ์›”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•œ๋‹ค.

Throughout American history, a distinct pattern has taken hold: when a hint that something might work cracks open the door, corporations surge through the breach and seize the desperation โ€” and the paychecks โ€” of people who are wounded, weary, and afraid.

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

Dr. Benjamin Rush, a Philadelphia physician and a signatory of the Declaration of Independence, was profoundly frustrated by his own impotence in failing to save his patients during the 1793 yellow fever epidemic.

ํ•„๋ผ๋ธํ”ผ์•„์˜ ์˜์‚ฌ์ด์ž ๋…๋ฆฝ์„ ์–ธ์„œ์— ์„œ๋ช…ํ•œ ๋ฒค์ €๋ฏผ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ ๋ฐ•์‚ฌ๋Š” 1793๋…„ ํ™ฉ์—ด๋ณ‘ ์œ ํ–‰ ๋‹น์‹œ ํ™˜์ž๋“ค์„ ๊ตฌ์ œํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ฌด๋ ฅํ•จ์— ๊นŠ์ด ์ขŒ์ ˆํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Subsequently, he encountered an autopsy report suggesting that purging and bloodletting might prove efficacious.

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

He thereupon drove this approach to its utmost extreme.

์ด์— ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ทน๋‹จ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ฐ€์–ด๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค.

That is, he administered high doses of calomel and jalap โ€” a mercury compound and the powdered root of a Mexican plant, which in combination constitute an exceptionally potent purgative โ€” to the sick while aggressively bloodletting them.

์ฆ‰, ๋ณ‘์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ณ ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰์˜ ์นผ๋กœ๋ฉœ๊ณผ ํ• ๋ผํ”„ โ€” ์ˆ˜์€ ํ™”ํ•ฉ๋ฌผ๊ณผ ๋ฉ•์‹œ์ฝ” ์‹๋ฌผ์˜ ๋ถ„๋ง ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ๋กœ์„œ, ๋ณ‘์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ทน๋„๋กœ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์™„ํ•˜์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” โ€” ๋ฅผ ํˆฌ์—ฌํ•˜๋Š” ํ•œํŽธ, ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ํ”ผ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌํ˜ˆํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

According to one account: "So much blood was spilled in the front yard that it reeked 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 counterfeit โ€” in 1916 the United States Bureau of Chemistry determined that it consisted chiefly of mineral oil and contained "fatty oil (probably beef fat), capsicum, and possibly traces of camphor or turpentine."

์ฐฐ์Šค ์Šคํƒ ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ฑ€ ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„์€ ์œ„์กฐํ’ˆ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค โ€” 1916๋…„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํ™”ํ•™๊ตญ์€ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋ฏธ๋„ค๋ž„ ์˜ค์ผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ "์ง€๋ฐฉ์œ (์•„๋งˆ๋„ ์†Œ ์ง€๋ฐฉ), ๊ณ ์ถ”, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์•„๋งˆ๋„ ์žฅ๋‡Œ๋‚˜ ํ…Œ๋ ˆ๋นˆ์œ ์˜ ํ”์ "์„ ํ•จ์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜€๋ƒˆ๋‹ค.

He had, however, drawn his inspiration from Chinese laborers who utilized oil extracted from a particular species of snake, an oil that is presumed to have possessed some anti-inflammatory properties.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๋Š” ํŠน์ • ์ข…์˜ ๋ฑ€์—์„œ ์ถ”์ถœํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋˜ ์ค‘๊ตญ์ธ ๋…ธ๋™์ž๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ฐฉ์•ˆํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ทธ ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„์€ ์•„๋งˆ๋„ ์ผ๋ถ€ ํ•ญ์—ผ์ฆ ํšจ๋Šฅ์„ ์ง€๋…”์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”์ •๋œ๋‹ค.

Radiation had medical applications, and it still does.

๋ฐฉ์‚ฌ์„ ์€ ์˜ํ•™์  ์šฉ๋„๋ฅผ ์ง€๋…”์—ˆ๊ณ , ํ˜„์žฌ์—๋„ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•˜๋‹ค.

This paved the way for William J. A. Bailey to market his Radithor as a "health tonic" โ€” until one prominent and enthusiastic customer overdosed, whereupon his jawbone corroded and he died of radiation poisoning.

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

Grey areas place regulatory authorities and public health experts in an awkward position: it is frequently difficult to assert that a given intervention is effective without research, particularly when no one is willing to squander 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„ํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ์—†์ด๋Š” ํŠน์ • ๊ฐœ์ž…์ด ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋‹จ์ •ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋นˆ๋ฒˆํ•˜๋‹ค.

In the meantime, companies are scrambling to get in on the act.

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

"What is frightening is that they will seize that hope, bottle it, and sell it off at whatever price they judge you can afford," Kang said.

"๋‘๋ ค์šด ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ๊ทธ ํฌ๋ง์„ ์›€์ผœ์ฅ์–ด ๋ณ‘์— ๋‹ด์•„, ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ๊ฐ๋‹นํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ํŒ๋‹จํ•˜๋Š” ์–ด๋– ํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด๋ผ๋„ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ํŒ”์•„์น˜์šฐ๋ ค ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฐ•์€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

A plethora of supplements and unapproved "remedies" are predicated upon potential benefits merely hinted at by animal studies or small-scale observational research incapable of establishing causality.

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

Nowadays, some longevity enthusiasts are pinning their hopes on rapamycin, a drug administered to organ transplant recipients, 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.

A class of extraordinarily successful drugs โ€” insulin, along with the weight-loss medications Wegovy and Zepbound โ€” consists of peptides, short chains of amino acids that can be synthesized in countless configurations.

์ธ์А๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ ์ฒด์ค‘ ๊ฐ๋Ÿ‰์ œ์ธ ์œ„๊ณ ๋น„์™€ ์ ญ๋ฐ”์šด๋“œ์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ผ๊ตฐ์˜ ์ง€๊ทนํžˆ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ์•ฝ๋ฌผ๋“ค์€ ํŽฉํƒ€์ด๋“œ, ์ฆ‰ ๋ฌด์ˆ˜ํ•œ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์œผ๋กœ ํ•ฉ์„ฑ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์งง์€ ์•„๋ฏธ๋…ธ์‚ฐ ์‚ฌ์Šฌ์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•œ๋‹ค.

This fact has spawned a vast industry devoted to marketing other peptides reputed โ€” largely without substantiation or verification โ€” to promote muscle growth, accelerate recovery, and combat aging.

์ด ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ๊ทผ์œก ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ฆ์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ , ํšŒ๋ณต์„ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋…ธํ™”์— ๋Œ€ํ•ญํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ โ€” ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ์ž…์ฆ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๊ฒ€์ฆ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ โ€” ์—ฌํƒ€ ํŽฉํƒ€์ด๋“œ์˜ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ ์‚ฐ์—…์„ ์ด‰๋ฐœํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

Does that sound familiar?

์ต์ˆ™ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋“ค๋ฆฌ๋Š”๊ฐ€?

Of course, science and technology, together with this country's ceaselessly humming economic engine, have yielded countless genuine marvels and anecdotes that are recounted for years on end, which in turn has gently tilled the soil in which credulous thinking can take root.

๋ฌผ๋ก , ๊ณผํ•™๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์ˆ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด ๋‚˜๋ผ์˜ ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์ œ ์—”์ง„์€ ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์ด์™€ ์˜ค๋ž˜๋„๋ก ํšŒ์ž๋˜๋Š” ์ผํ™”๋ฅผ ์‚ฐ์ถœํ•ด๋ƒˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋‹ค์‹œ๊ธˆ ๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ ์‰ฌ์šด ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ์‹นํ‹€ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ† ์–‘์„ ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ผ๊ตฌ์–ด๋†“์•˜๋‹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 of metal and glass, we can access virtually the entirety of humanity's knowledge.

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

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

์˜ํ•™์˜ ๋ฐœ์ „, ํŠนํžˆ ํ•œ๋•Œ๋Š” ๊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 a mere 47 years.

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 would dare claim that it cannot double once more?

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

Why should there be any limit at all?

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

At this juncture, we may well find ourselves more vulnerable than ever before.

์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ˜„์‹œ์ ์—์„œ ๊ทธ ์–ด๋А ๋•Œ๋ณด๋‹ค๋„ ๋”์šฑ ์ทจ์•ฝํ•œ ์ƒํƒœ์— ๋†“์—ฌ ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

According to Kang, we are being exposed, day by day, to ever more beguiling claims.

๊ฐ•์— ์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋‚˜๋‚ ์ด ๋”์šฑ ํ˜„ํ˜น์ ์ธ ์ฃผ์žฅ์— ๋…ธ์ถœ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

For the devices now nestled in our pockets are enabling an endless influx of hawkersโ€”euphemistically termed "influencers"โ€”to peddle "cures" and other shortcuts along our 250-year-long pursuit of happiness.

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

Social media excels at mimicking the very type of message that scientists have found our brains are most inclined to believe: the direct, personal appeal of individuals who appear credible and claim to possess 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 alluring alternative to a healthcare system that is costly, 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 foremost public health official, has lent his endorsement and a platform to those who advocate for or peddle unproven remedies and wellness products.

๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ์ตœ๊ณ  ๋ณด๊ฑด ์ฑ…์ž„์ž์ธ ๋ณด๊ฑด๋ณต์ง€๋ถ€ ์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—๊ฒŒ ์ง€์ง€์™€ ๋ฐœ์–ธ์˜ ์žฅ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

That category encompasses vitamin A as a treatment for measles, peptides, and raw milk.

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

"The safety mechanisms are currently deactivated," Kang asserts.

"์•ˆ์ „์žฅ์น˜๊ฐ€ ํ˜„์žฌ ๋น„ํ™œ์„ฑํ™”๋œ ์ƒํƒœ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฐ•์€ ์–ธ๋ช…ํ•œ๋‹ค.

"It is, in effect, a situation that has deteriorated further than before.

"๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์ „๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ์•…ํ™”๋œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This is because social media, because of the things that exist on the internet, and because the so-called trustworthy figures whose counsel we are deemed to heed have become untrustworthy.

์†Œ์…œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด๋กœ ์ธํ•ด, ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท์ƒ์— ์กด์žฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋“ค๋กœ ์ธํ•ด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์กฐ์–ธ์„ ์ฒญ์ทจํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฐ„์ฃผ๋˜๋Š” ์ด๋ฅธ๋ฐ” ์‹ ๋ขฐํ•  ๋งŒํ•œ ์ธ๋ฌผ๋“ค์ด ์‹ ๋ขฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

And I believe that this exposes the American public to a far graver risk."

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ €๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋Œ€์ค‘์„ ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ์ค‘๋Œ€ํ•œ ์œ„ํ—˜์— ๋…ธ์ถœ์‹œํ‚จ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์‚ฌ๋ฃŒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

George C. Parker, that consummate American con artist who sold the Brooklyn Bridge โ€” on more than one occasion โ€” would have relished it.

๋ธŒ๋ฃจํด๋ฆฐ ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ โ€” ํ•œ ์ฐจ๋ก€ ์ด์ƒ โ€” ๋งค๊ฐํ•œ ๋ฐ” ์žˆ๋Š” ์œ„๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ๊พผ ์กฐ์ง€ C. ํŒŒ์ปค๋ผ๋ฉด ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋งˆ์Œ์— ๋“ค์–ด ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฆฌ๋ผ.

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

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‹น์‹ ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ๋งˆ๋ จํ•ด ๋‘์—ˆ์œผ๋ฆฌ๋ผ.

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ํŠธ๋Ÿญ ์šด์ „์‚ฌ, ์ทจ๋ฏธ๋กœ 80๋งŒ ๊ฐœ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๋ถ€ํ’ˆ์„ ์กฐ๋ฆฝํ•ด NYC ๋ชจํ˜• ์™„์„ฑโ€”์ด์ œ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€ ์ „์‹œํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ

C2Sep 18
DoorDash and Uber Eats to Launch Delivery Services Within Costco Stores in the U.S.

DoorDash and Uber Eats to Launch Delivery Services Within Costco Stores in the U.S.

๋„์–ด๋Œ€์‹œ์™€ ์šฐ๋ฒ„ ์ด์ธ , ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฝ”์ŠคํŠธ์ฝ” ๋งค์žฅ ๋‚ด ๋ฐฐ๋‹ฌ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ๊ฐœ์‹œ ์˜ˆ์ •

C2Sep 17
Chef David Chang traverses America in a new food-focused CNN travel series

Chef David Chang traverses America in a new food-focused CNN travel series

์…ฐํ”„ ๋ฐ์ด๋น„๋“œ ์ฐฝ, ์Œ์‹ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์˜ ์‹ ๊ทœ CNN ์—ฌํ–‰ ์‹œ๋ฆฌ์ฆˆ์—์„œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์„ ํšก๋‹จํ•˜๋‹ค

C2Sep 17
America's Great Road Trip: The Journey That Cars Fueled โ€” and Undermined

America's Great Road Trip: The Journey That Cars Fueled โ€” and Undermined

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์œ„๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋กœ๋“œ ํŠธ๋ฆฝ: ์ž๋™์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ํ•œ โ€” ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์•ฝํ™”์‹œํ‚จ โ€” ์—ฌ์ •

C2Sep 14
Golf Ball Found in World Trade Center Debris: A Symbol of Inexplicable Loss

Golf Ball Found in World Trade Center Debris: A Symbol of Inexplicable Loss

๊ณจํ”„๊ณต, ์„ธ๊ณ„๋ฌด์—ญ์„ผํ„ฐ ์ž”ํ•ด์—์„œ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ๋˜๋‹ค: ์„ค๋ช…ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ์ƒ์‹ค์˜ ์ƒ์ง•

C2Sep 11
Apple pie (made, of course, with Mother) has become an emblematic culinary icon of a nation.

Apple pie (made, of course, with Mother) has become an emblematic culinary icon of a nation.

Apple pie (made, of course, with Mother) has become an emblematic culinary icon of a nation.

C2Sep 9
American School Satisfaction Plummets to Historic Lowsโ€”New Gallup Survey Reveals

American School Satisfaction Plummets to Historic Lowsโ€”New Gallup Survey Reveals

American School Satisfaction Plummets to Historic Lowsโ€”New Gallup Survey Reveals

C2Sep 9
Nonagenarian Dale 'Grey Beard' Sanders Reclaims Record as Oldest Appalachian Trail Thru-Hiker

Nonagenarian Dale 'Grey Beard' Sanders Reclaims Record as Oldest Appalachian Trail Thru-Hiker

Nonagenarian Dale 'Grey Beard' Sanders Reclaims Record as Oldest Appalachian Trail Thru-Hiker

C2Sep 1
Selecting Chrysanthemums for the Autumn Garden โ€” Beyond the Classic Cushion Mum

Selecting Chrysanthemums for the Autumn Garden โ€” Beyond the Classic Cushion Mum

Selecting Chrysanthemums for the Autumn Garden โ€” Beyond the Classic Cushion Mum

C2Sep 1