Christians. Could you be wrong?

[Lucanus]

The papers were there to show that we can understand how the placebo effect works by studying the biochemistry of the brain and the physiology of the human body in general. Those studies apply mostly to Parkinson's disease because that's where the effect is most apparent. The reward mechanisms ARE how the placebo works: you are giving your patient an innocuous chemical which he thinks it's medicine (something good for his body). Thus, the reward mechanisms of the patient are triggered and dopamine is produced. Moreover, the biochemistry of the placebo effect in Parkinson's might help in the near future to have a better understanding of how it works in general.

It's just as if a man in the 1600s said that we could not possibly ever hope to explain lightning via physics because no one had come up with a scientific explanation since the dawn of mankind. You're just being unreasonable and impatient. I can't explain that, therefore god is one of the worst possible arguments one could ever come up with.