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Is Accepting Christian Evidence Special Pleading?

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Is Accepting Christian Evidence Special Pleading?
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RE: Is Accepting Christian Evidence Special Pleading?
September 11, 2017 at 10:03 pm
The placebo effect depends primarily on belief. If someone knows they're ingesting a placebo it generally has no effect; that's why trials of new drugs use a blinded control, and look for a statistically significant variation between the placebo control and the drug being tested.
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Is Accepting Christian Evidence Special Pleading?

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Is Accepting Christian Evidence Special Pleading? - by SteveII - September 11, 2017 at 1:41 pm
RE: Is Accepting Christian Evidence Special Pleading? - by Astreja - September 11, 2017 at 10:03 pm

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