Michael Torrie wrote:
On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 13:47 -0600, Steve wrote:
Why does everyone knock the placebo effect, and assume traditional
medicine is SO much better?
Just to be clear, the placebo effect is, according to my understanding,
only seen if a person has had the medicine before and felt the effect of
the medicine. So, for example, if someone has taken Tylenol in the past
and it was effective, only then can giving someone a placebo pill (and
claim that it is tylenol) sometimes produce this response in people. If
a person has no idea (consciously or unconsciously) what effect he or
she is going to feel from a medicine, the placebo effect is never
witnessed.
That's incorrect. From wikipedia: "...is the phenomenon that a
patient's symptoms can be alleviated by an otherwise ineffective
treatment, since the individual expects or believes that it will work."
It's also a fairly decent band. It's also so far removed from the topic
of this mailing list that I think you're all Nazis.
-Blake
P.S. I hereby invoke Godwin's law.
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