Posted: Nov 13, 2018 11:32 pm
Thommo wrote:No, that's now how evidence works, or the placebo effect works.
There is a rate of spontaneous remission in cancers. It is not higher for people who take placebos. That is dangerous bollocks, that charlatans use to exploit the desperate.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
ETA: https://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatm ... ffect.htmlThe bottom line is that placebos don’t cure.
Duh. Of course cancer researchers and drug makers are going to downplay the placebo effect because it it is not in their interest to acknowledge it. I believe the TED presenter.