Assertion: ect | /r/CapableOf | become popular
Facets:
value: without any scientific basis
type: OTHER
value: quickly
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Because ECT was cheap and easy, it quickly became popular and by the 1950s was firmly established as the nation's primary method of treating depression.
text: Thus, ECT was invented and became popular without any real understanding of electric shock’s effects on the brain other than that an electric current that was usually fatal when applied to the heart was not fatal when applied to the brain.
text: The history of ECT clearly demonstrates that ECT was developed and became popular without any scientific basis other than that it didn’t result in immediate death and that brain damage mutes the symptoms of mental illness.