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In Defense of Placebos

By Alex Korb, Ph.D. on January 11, 2012 in PreFrontal Nudity

People are always hatin' on the placebo effect. Don't be a placebo hater. Science has shown us the value of the placebo effect. I say take advantage of it. Read More

placebo effect!

Submitted by Dr.G. Balakrishnan ph.d on January 12, 2012 - 12:49pm.

i agree. If it helps cure, why not use it. No use if you do not have faith in anything you do. faith is a must. that way religions too. Be creative to accept something is helping, then you get oriented that it helps and indeed it helps!
It is indeed unwise if you want so called scientific evidence. Evidence do not over extrapolate.
Mostly we live on creativity and imagination. Be one with fertile imagination of cure you are cured. That way evangelists like Pentecostalism really helped a several people from their fear of any problem.
Trust is the most important pharmacopoeia.

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Alex Korb, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA and scientific consultant for BrainSonix Inc. 

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