The latest post from @baldurBaldur Bjarnason and the hype around AI in software engineering suddenly reminded me of a homeopathy market in Russia. Hear me out, you'll see why it is relevant and might be important.

(I left Russia almost 10 years ago, so not all the details might be up to date)

The medication market in Russia is largely unregulated. It is unregulated in a very interesting way: the company does not really have to offer rigorous proof that their medication works according to the claims. "Fakeomycins", as they're sometimes called by skeptics, include not just homeopathy, but medication that is not proven to work, and medication that distracts the patient from the problem.

Due to this, people are either paying for things that do not help ("Arbidol", miracle cold cure that after 30 years on market still has no evidence of efficiency, sells 70 million packs a year), or getting a placebo when they need real medication.

Why? How come? Well...