Placebos Are Getting More Effective

2009-08-24 Thread Rceeberger
http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect?currentPage=1 A mind is a terrible thing. xponent Nocebos Maru rob ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Ben Bernanke, fearless leader

2009-08-24 Thread Doug Pensinger
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 7:52 PM, John Williamsjwilliams4...@gmail.com wrote: If he predicts a recovery every year, he may get lucky and be right sometime! Well, if he didn't permanently injure his hand patting himself on the back in his speech last Friday...Hey, look at me, I prevented

Re: Ben Bernanke, fearless leader

2009-08-24 Thread John Williams
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Doug Pensingerbrig...@zo.com wrote: If he was the only one saying that there was a problem you might have a point, but as the vast majority of economists said that there was a huge problem Economists are no better at predicting the future than anyone else. How

Re: Ben Bernanke, fearless leader

2009-08-24 Thread Doug Pensinger
John Williams wrote: Economists are no better at predicting the future than anyone else. How many economists do you know that got rich investing? The vast majority of economists do no better than average at investing. Of course economists like to persuade others that they can predict the