RE: Christians. Could you be wrong?
August 13, 2014 at 4:52 pm
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2014 at 4:53 pm by Fidel_Castronaut.)
(August 13, 2014 at 4:49 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(August 13, 2014 at 4:26 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: The placebo effect is no more "Faith" healing than it is "homeopathic" healing or "water cystal" healing. You don't get to slap on your ill-defined pseudoscientific 'faith' label bullshit on an unconcluded scientific question.
Again, not my definition. that is how science defines it.
from the first page in a google search
pla·ce·bo ef·fect
noun
a beneficial effect, produced by a placebo drug or treatment, that cannot be attributed to the properties of the placebo itself, and must therefore be due to the patient's belief in that treatment
So someone who doesn't believe in a god but rather, say, the power of their own mind is given drug 'x' which results in a placebo and the resolution of their given ailment.
Your conclusion, please?
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