You should have introduce yourself there:
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But I suppose that the title of the thread ("introduce yourself") wasn't clear enough.
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Originally Posted by pacificwhim  I can bring an interesting spin to the CAM question. In my guise as a nonfiction ghostwriter, I'm helping an equine chiropractor write his book about working on some of the top racehorses in the country. I could get quotes from a dozen top racing trainers (as well as hunter/jumper horse owners, one of whom, a Ph.D. psychologist, was a 100% skeptic about chiropractic) about how chiropractic adjustment has completely changed their horses' careers and improved their racing performance. In fact, I believe one of the horses my author worked on, Costa Rising, was voted Horse of the Year by the National Thoroughbred Racing Assn.
What makes this especially interesting is that with a horse, there obviously can be no question about the placebo effect. |
Well, no need of placebo effect in the horses here. It's just a mix between the error of personnal validation (some owners have the subjective impression that the horse is doing better when in fact is not doing better) and the logical fallacies of
"Post-hoc ergo propter hoc" (the horse is improving for other reasons than chiropractic but the people think falsely that the improvement comes from it).
So, yeah, no need of placebo effect at all for explaining those testimonies (and by the way, in science, testimonies doesn't prove anything).