--- Joanna Sheldon <cjs10 at cornell.edu> wrote: > At 07:24 09-06-01, you wrote:
> >> Well, now, this is a little peculiar. There's a lot of evidence that the
> mind can heal the body -- witness (amongst the most widely accepted) the
> "placebo effect".
I idly and facetiously wonder whether the "placebo effect" has ever been rigorously tested, and if so, what they used as a control.
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