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Changing Your Fate
by Steven Novella via Skepticblog There is a cartoonish sight gag that I have seen multiple times – a patient lying ill in a hospital bed has some indicator of their health, on a chart or monitor. The...
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The Placebo Effect and Pharmaceutical Companies
Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know – YouTube Scientists have noticed that patients may experience improvements just from thinking they’ve had medicine, even if that medicine is fake. But why does the...
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5 Things I’ve noticed about… Homeopathic Medicine
By The Locke via The Soap Box Homeopathic medicine is probably one of the oldest forms of alternative medicine there is. Infact it was invented in the late 1700’s by German physician Samuel Hahnemann,...
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Your days are numbered
by Gordon Bonnet via Skeptophilia Most people have heard of the placebo effect. The name comes from the Latin word meaning “I will please,” and refers to the phenomenon that people who are given an...
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