Another fascinating emperor-has-no-clothes moment, courtesy of Newsweek and a JAMA article from last year.
The placebo effect-that is, a medical benefit you get from an inert pill or other sham treatment-rests on the holy trinity of belief, expectation, and hope. But telling someone with depression who is being helped by antidepressants, or who (like my friend) [...]
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Blog of Comments- That’s the Ticket December 31, 1969At Althouse, “traditionalguy” writes: The key to all appropriations of billions of dollars for “High Speed Rail”is to get a 15 year process started with huge grants for inflated Consultant Contracts given to friends of the Congressmen. In terms of dollars it is a black hole that hopefully never will run any trains. They cannot afford [...]
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