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Myth of the Placebo Effect + Science evolves... Will science education?

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The Myth of the Placebo Effect
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publicatio...ebo-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-...education/

INTRO SUMMARY: Science is a constantly changing, self-correcting process. Why do we teach it as a collection of old, settled facts?
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Syne Offline
(Oct 21, 2016 09:33 PM)C C Wrote: The Myth of the Placebo Effect
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publicatio...ebo-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.
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Yazata Offline
(Oct 21, 2016 09:33 PM)C C Wrote: The Myth of the Placebo Effect
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publicatio...ebo-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/paper...d_ch06.pdf

http://wagerlab.colorado.edu/files/paper..._atlas.pdf

Many different views, not all consistent:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=pla...gQgQMIGjAA
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