(September 11, 2017 at 9:11 pm)Tizheruk Wrote:Quote:You were saying?Already been refuted as pseudoscience nice try
https://debunkingdenialism.com/category/featured/
And here
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2016/1...ggeration/
And here
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2016/1...deception/
And here
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/1...lacebo-ef/
And here
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/is-harn...-anything/
And here
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/placebo-are-you-there/
And here
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-ris...-medicine/
And Each of those have links to more information
Quote:Giving patients placebo treatments for real medication conditions in a clinical setting is a terrible idea. Placebos are weak, their effects disappear within a short period of time, and have very little effect on objective measures. At best, you are merely suppressing subjective symptoms while objective symptoms remain or worsensCould not have said it better myself
The placebo effect is NOT pseudoscience dummy, it has been studied extensively.
http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/01/the-p...phenomenon
Quote:The Placebo Phenomenon
phe·nom·e·non
fəˈnäməˌnän,fəˈnäməˌnən/
noun
noun: phenomenon; plural noun: phenomena
1. a fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, especially one whose cause or explanation is in question.
Quote:But researchers have found that placebo treatments—interventions with no active drug ingredients—can stimulate real physiological responses, from changes in heart rate and blood pressure to chemical activity in the brain, in cases involving pain, depression, anxiety, fatigue, and even some symptoms of Parkinson’s.