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Originally Posted by Chris Noble  The majority of what can be termed mind-body medicine is still fringe pseudoscience today.
Deepak Chopra isn't likely to win a Nobel prize any day soon.
You seem to be confusing popular support with scientific credibility. |
Well Chris, as we discussed briefly in other topic until conventional medicine tests the medical experimenter expectancy effect under a double blind protocol (never been done properly!
) , the 'gold standard' method of randomized, double blind trials in conventional medicine may turn out to be the 'tin standard' of the future
In another topic, my 'skeptic' friends in here were scoffing at Dean Radin's 'Intentional Chocolate' experiment with positive outcome.....but this is actually testing the sort of influence conventional medicine refuses to even look for because it is considered impossible. Frankly I would rather it was done testing the response of placebos (or even drugs) than chocolate but there is nothing too silly for science to test if the experiment is conducted properly.
Chris, you are in that field, you could do it, why not? All you need to do is put on your neutral open minded hat (take off the debunker's hat for a while) get some students to monitor the effects of an esteemed drug [that is really a placebo] compared to a genuine placebo (single blind followed by double blind before any analysis of results!). Publish the results, whatever the outcome.