Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on February 19, 2020, 10:01:09 AM

Quote from: BADecker on February 17, 2020, 10:44:53 PM

But, we simply don't have any way of measuring whether or not medicine is causing a placebo effect via the subconscios or not.

What are you even talking about? The placebo effect can be measured extremely easily. You have seriously never heard of a randomized control trial? The entirety of modern medicine is based on comparisons against the placebo effect.

SIMPLE placebo effect can be measured rather easily. But we don't even know what goes into complex placebo effect. What do I mean? Possibly all healing, medical or otherwise, is complex placebo effect. Why would I think this way?

No medicine heals. All that medicines do is to prompt/push/trick the body into healing itself. If the medical really knew the deep stuff involved with the body healing itself, they would do it rather than play games with poisons... except if they want to make more money, that is. But since they don't know, all the further they can measure in ideal circumstances is about 33% of healing being done by placebo effect.

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