So I wonder if an argument could be made that a mother that kisses their
crying child's "boo-boo" and makes it stop hurting and the child stop
crying could be classified as a very primitive form of placebo. I wonder
what could be deduced or extrapolated from human nature into
understanding the placebo effect from this - scans of a child's brain
patterns for instance.
Kind of out of the box but this scenario occurred to me while reading
the thread.
On 04/22/2013 01:56 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
I am not critical of them. As far as I know, based on recent research,
there is no evidence they exist. That's all there is to it. They might
exist. I do not know of any theoretical reason why they shouldn't,
given the complexity of biology. But there is no evidence they do exist.
A placebo appears to be exactly the same as no treatment at all. That
isn't surprising.
