The sick are not necessarily healthier than the normal

Evidence

In fact, in the vast majority of diseases, at least a temporary improvement occurs at some point on its own. A person who happens to have just performed a rain dance at that time cannot claim to have cured the patient. The same applies if this rain dance took place in close temporal connection with a serious medical therapy, which could also have caused the improvement. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 723 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Vital-seeming healthy people resemble the walking dead; Most diseases improve on their own regardless of what treatment happened nearby — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice: How to Communicate…, 723

Broader Connections

• Most diseases improve on their own regardless of what treatment happened nearby #corroborates (0.85) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 723