I've recently been fascinated by the the data surrounding the effects of placebo. People have been recorded to trump any number of medical conditions ranging in severity from depression all the way to HIV+ turned negative and stage 4 terminal cancer. All from sugar pills, well more interestingly, from the power of the mind. While watching a TED talk about placebos, the speaker was recanting a story of an individual that was recovering from a placebo that was intricately fabricated by his physician until the company that produced what he thought he was consuming released a full analysis of the product he thought he was receiving on a special testing phase of the medicines test cycle. The patient had been showing a freakish recovery while he was convinced the meds where working, but after discovering it was bunk, he did a full 180
and died. The power of the human mind is crazy! Most of the Theists around here have whatever they get coming to them. They search it out on an Atheist Forum and get what they get, but what about everyone else in my everyday life? All the people I work with or share a day to day life with? Am I stripping them of an otherwise useful placebo source that could have potentially caused them
Good when their ability to face reality failed? I know I'm an Atheist, and morals aren't allowed, but I'm having a moral dilemma. Your thoughts...
and died. The power of the human mind is crazy! Most of the Theists around here have whatever they get coming to them. They search it out on an Atheist Forum and get what they get, but what about everyone else in my everyday life? All the people I work with or share a day to day life with? Am I stripping them of an otherwise useful placebo source that could have potentially caused them
Good when their ability to face reality failed? I know I'm an Atheist, and morals aren't allowed, but I'm having a moral dilemma. Your thoughts...
