Open Mind,
Thanks for those links, and the reminder that the placebo effect is a great example of the power of consciousness. Your first link goes to an article followed by a lot of discussion. This discussion is amusing because it mirrors in many ways some of the discussions we have here!
Over there there the skeptics seem to doubt that there is any such thing as a placebo effect, attributing its effects to symptom fluctuations, fraud, bad experimental methods.......
David |