Is Accepting Christian Evidence Special Pleading?

[Amarok]

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.

I'm sorry that simply false as the links clearly point out

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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

Could 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

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.

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.

I didn't say the effect was not does not exist idiot . Read what I linked fool . They address that very "narrative"