(January 11, 2013 at 1:59 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: ...
B The power of the placebo affect is amazing. People think they might get better and so they do. It's been proven so many times scientifically, and people always claim they were skeptical beforehand that something would work, but if that was completely the case then they wouldn't of taken the homeopathic medicine to start with.
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I worked at a Christian Science church last year for about 5 months. They're all about curing illnesses by thinking good spiritual thoughts. They don't take medicine and they don't believe in the existence of germs. Every week I had to listen to an hour of testimony from these crazy people about how they cured their latest cold by thinking good things etc. It was the placebo effect on steroids. James Randi would go insane listening to these people.
But they had soap in the bathroom. Hypocrites.
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
