In a message dated 12/8/00 10:32:05 AM EST, [email protected] writes: << Subj: Re: CS>Plecebo effect? Date: 12/8/00 10:32:05 AM EST From: [email protected] (Marshall Dudley) Reply-to: [email protected] To: [email protected] "Philip I. Marie Sr." wrote: > Hi All; > > This morning on TV they discussed plecebo effect and said it had negative > sound to it. Said to replace it with "recalling good health". > > Said, what counts is; > > Patients faith in self healing > Caregivers faith in healing the patient > (the 3rd I can't recall) I watched Man on the Moon a couple of days ago. Andy goes to the Phillipines for the psychic surgery. In the movie they show them using hidden cattle entrails in their hands to make it look like they are actually going inside the person to pull out the cancer. My wife remarked how terriable it was to be giving these poor people false hope using a gimmick like that. Although I do not approve of such action, I did note that many many people were healed by these people. Were they fakes, or were they really doing psychic healing, and adding the blood and guts to make it more believable, or strictly using the blood and guts to trigger the patients faith in self healing. I am not sure we will ever know, but the placebo effect I am sure was very important to their cure, otherwise why would they do it, risking getting caught, which they did. Marshall
Marshall: While I cannot offer DIRECT evidence one way or the other, an airline pilot friend on mine recounted a story about a colleague of his (another airline pilot) who observed psychic healing over several years using video tapes to document the procedures. For what it's worth, this man is a believer. Roger >> -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
