It's more than just pills, they did this with fake knee operations years ago.
If you accept Cold Fusion as real, I would be skeptical of these continual
efforts to perfect reductionist materialism as a viewpoint. More than that, if
you follow the headlines, there is reason to question the whole
Chris Zell chrisz...@wetmtv.com wrote:
If you accept Cold Fusion as real, I would be skeptical of these continual
efforts to perfect reductionist materialism as a viewpoint.
I do not understand this comment. Cold fusion is based entirely on
reductionist materialism. That is the only reason
So I wonder if an argument could be made that a mother that kisses their
crying child's boo-boo and makes it stop hurting and the child stop
crying could be classified as a very primitive form of placebo. I wonder
what could be deduced or extrapolated from human nature into
understanding the
From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 1:57 PM
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Placebo effect probably does not exist
Chris Zell chrisz...@wetmtv.commailto:chrisz...@wetmtv.com wrote:
I do not understand
Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote:
I agree that power of positive thinking is over rated, but there is
plenty of evidence that chronic stress, fear and anxiety affect
peoples well being. e.g. stress interferes with the immune response.
I agree that does seem likely. As a practical
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote:
Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote:
That is, an effect in which a prognosis improves because the patients think
they are being treated when they are actually taking by fake medicine
(something with no
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote:
The null hypothesis upon which to base the control experiment: Even
though a placebo effect may be present and in fact much larger . . .
This is drifting off topic, so let me rename the header.
I do not think the placebo effect exists. I read several
Well placebo effect is one thing when we're talking about physical maladies
and quite another when we're talking about subjective impressions, as was
the topic.
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote:
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote:
The null
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote:
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote:
The null hypothesis upon which to base the control experiment: Even
though a placebo effect may be present and in fact much larger . . .
This is drifting off topic, so let me
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote:
Well placebo effect is one thing when we're talking about physical maladies
and quite another when we're talking about subjective impressions, as was
the topic.
True. That's why I started another thread. I meant placebo in the medical
sense. But in other
Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote:
That is, an effect in which a prognosis improves because the patients
think they are being treated when they are actually taking by fake medicine
(something with no efficacy). One hypothesis is that people respond well
because they think the doctor
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