[email protected] wrote: > Several years ago a very prosperous man from my home town (my brother > worked for him) got cancer before age 60. He went to the Phillipines for > psychic healing, did the routine, paid a lot of money and was dead in six > months. Evidently he believed in it enough to go and pay for it, but his > "belief" did not effect a cure. If the placebo effects really works it > should have worked for him even if the "healer" was a fake and used chicken > guts to put on a show.
Not necessarily. If you look at trials for new medicines you will find that the placebo effect may work for 1 to 10% of the people. It does not effect the other 90 to 99%. One person not being susceptable to the placebo effect is not statistically significant, especially considering that the effect only affects 1 out of 10 or less anyway. There are other possible explainations. Many of the people seeing them were doing other things that would elicit a cure, including prayer, so it is impossible to know which action, or combination of actions, worked. There were more than one "healer" and a few really were gifted, but most were fakes. I am sure that there is no clear cut "this is the way it was", but rather a combination of a lot of these factors. BTW, you are right. I had said cow, but I remember now they were chicken guts. Marshall -- 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]>
