Archive for January 19th, 2011
In my recent post about homeopathy I mentioned the placebo effect, how powerful it is, and that it can even work when the recipient knows that they received a placebo. Well as a follow on from that I suggest that you should watch this thoroughly entertaining video where Ben Goldacre talks more about the placebo effect at Nerdstock.
Steven Sumpter, or Latentexistence to his virtual friends, is thirty-something who is married with one cat, lives in a broken body and gets angry with the government a lot. Steven likes messing around with computers and going fast on his motorbike. He is also a regular contributor to The Pod Delusion and Where's The Benefit?
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