psychological etc., should have to undergo the same sort of rigourous
testing that drug therapies undergo (or given recent news should
undergo). Unfortunately there are too many entrenched special
interests who would be too damaged if that were the case. Just look at
the respective lobbying efforts put in by the drug makers, and the
medical and chiropractic associations to cite just three instances.
Personally that's just one of the reasons why I think that
psychotherapy should have an equivalent of the FDA. That may get rid
of the treatment de jour and get rid of most of those BS type
treatments.
larry
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:10:39 -0400, Jim Davis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It was actually just a joke. ;^)
>
> I agree with everything you said.
>
> It is a shame however that there are so many "treatments" and "cures" out
> there standing on the shoulders of the placebo effect. Many of them cause,
> at best, just a huge waste of time and money but at worst many of them cause
> serious negative aspects when actual treatments are put off, misapplied or
> just plain ignored in favor of these treatments.
>
> Jim Davis
>
> From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 4:02 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: high blood pressure
>
>
> Consider this, some studies suggest that over half the pain killing
> effect of morphine or heroin is placebo. The brain is a wonderful
> device, we simply have not learned enough about it yet.
>
> I would not call it trickery or whatever, what happens is that when
> the placebo effect is activated one system in our brain is activated
> to reduce the pain.
>
> larry
>
>
>
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