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Electro convulsive therapy is still routinely performed when pharmaceutical options have been exhausted, and damaging the brain is the intent.

I went through a few rounds myself in modern day America where we pride ourselves in not being barbarians. The first time I did not even consent, my spouse did it for me (in the 80s). To this day I never fully recovered. And yet if I complain people will just point to "studies" that say it works. Guess what, such studies also existed for lobotomy.

The insanity is with the randomness! Precisely destroying a small part of the brain with focused ultrasounds is almost miraculous for people with debilitating essential tremors and research are underway to fine tune that technique for parkison.

Snake oil! He had to believe it to make money.