Is Accepting Christian Evidence Special Pleading?

[Astreja]

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

It's a very interesting neurological and psychological puzzle, that's for sure -- expectations, both good and bad, do seem to be playing a role, along with the brain's reward system.  Surprised to hear that some people do get benefits from a known placebo, which is not how I understood the phenomenon.