(September 16, 2014 at 12:42 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(September 16, 2014 at 12:06 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: obviously you never bothered reading my other posts, even science acknowledges healing can occur based on belief, otherwise known as the "placebo effect".
I already posted the article from the Scientific American...go read it.
And yet again you mischaracterize the science behind it. We don't know why the placebo effect works, so stop saying you have the answer. The observation is that certain recovery can happen in certain situations that are not fully explained by science right now. Just saying "they get healed because they believe it" is what you tell a kindergartner who is first learning about placebo effect. And you certainly can't take the unknown mechanism of the placebo effect and extrapolate it to miracles and other horseshit like that.
I'm not mischaracterizing anything, that is exactly what the article states http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...-the-mind/
http://web.as.uky.edu/statistics/users/r...oStudy.pdf
Quote:As Mr. Wright’s experience illustrates, a patient’s expectations and beliefs can greatly affect the
course of an illness