The Strange Powers of the Placebo Effect: There have been tons of studies about the Placebo Effect, and it always shocks me that people ignore the obvious. Researchers always find the results weird and baffling, and many people ridicule folks who are "tricked" into thinking they're feeling better because of a placebo. But new-agers and pagans out there don't so much as bat an eye at things like this. Is it because they're cuckoo, or because they simply accept the power of the mind to manifest an outcome? And while we're on the placebo topic... Do conventional medicines become less effective if the patient is told that it's a placebo? I'd like to know if any of the success medicines enjoy is because we believe docs when they tell us a medicine will work.
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