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Myth of the Placebo Effect + Science evolves... Will science education? - C C - Oct 21, 2016
The Myth of the Placebo Effect
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-myth-of-the-placebo-effect
INTRO SUMMARY: The idea that inert treatments can be powerfully therapeutic — that our minds can be misled into healing our bodies — is so appealing that it has survived numerous debunkings. Nick Barrowman tells a tale of confused researchers, credulous reporters, and the public that just wants to believe.
Science Evolves. Will Science Education?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20161012-science-evolves-so-should-science-education/
INTRO SUMMARY: Science is a constantly changing, self-correcting process. Why do we teach it as a collection of old, settled facts?
RE: Myth of the Placebo Effect + Science evolves... Will science education? - Syne - Oct 21, 2016
(Oct 21, 2016 09:33 PM)C C Wrote: The Myth of the Placebo Effect
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-myth-of-the-placebo-effect
INTRO SUMMARY: The idea that inert treatments can be powerfully therapeutic — that our minds can be misled into healing our bodies — is so appealing that it has survived numerous debunkings. Nick Barrowman tells a tale of confused researchers, credulous reporters, and the public that just wants to believe.
So...the only direct study attempting to refute the placebo effect didn't even have the bias/error-mitigation of being double-blind.
RE: Myth of the Placebo Effect + Science evolves... Will science education? - Yazata - Oct 23, 2016
(Oct 21, 2016 09:33 PM)C C Wrote: The Myth of the Placebo Effect
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-myth-of-the-placebo-effect
INTRO SUMMARY: The idea that inert treatments can be powerfully therapeutic — that our minds can be misled into healing our bodies — is so appealing that it has survived numerous debunkings. Nick Barrowman tells a tale of confused researchers, credulous reporters, and the public that just wants to believe.
Or at least that's one man's opinion.
Here's a different view:
http://wagerlab.colorado.edu/files/papers/06_imag_med_ch06.pdf
http://wagerlab.colorado.edu/files/papers/placebo_effects_atlas.pdf
Many different views, not all consistent:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=placebo+effect+studies&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjmjcWBgfLPAhVR92MKHTWxDbgQgQMIGjAA