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Skriven 2015-02-21 14:16:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 02-20-15  01:40 <=-

 ML>> Some studies have shown that the placebo effect often works
 ML>> with patients who profess not to believe in it. Anyhow, it's
 ML>> the homeopaths' position that their treatment system is not
 ML>> placebo-effect based.
 NB>> I guess I have heard the first... as well as the second... I'm less
 NB>> sceptical of the first, actually...  the homeopath position seems like
 NB>> handwaving...  :)
 ML> They're both waving of something, but on the other hand 
 ML> much of medicine treads so close to shamanism anyhow.

Indeed.  :)
 
 ML>>> By the way, this Nobelist (Ben-Veniste I seem
 ML>>> to recall but am not sure) came down on the side of the
 ML>>> homeopaths
 ML>> I was wrong, Ben-Veniste did research that has been used to
 ML>> justify homeopathy, but it was Luc Montagnier, always a bit
 ML>> crazy, who went whole hog.
 NB>> Ah.
 ML> I was right, as it turns out. Ben-Veniste is as crazy as the
 ML> other guy.
 ML> "TRANSATLANTIC TRANSFER OF DIGITIZED ANTIGEN SIGNAL BY TELEPHONE LINK.
 ML> J. Aefssa, P. Jurgens, W. Hsueh and J. Benveniste. Digital Biology
 ML> Laboratory (DBL), 32 rue des Carnets, 92140 Clamart, France, and
 ML> Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60614, USA.
 ML> Ligands so dilute that no molecule remained still retained
 ML> biological activity which could be abolished by magnetic
 ML> fields, suggesting the electromagnetic (EM) nature of the
 ML> molecular signal. This was confirmed by the electronic
 ML> transfer to water of molecular activity, directly or after
 ML> computer storage. Here, we report its telephonic transfer."
 ML> You can't make this up. It takes a Nobelist to make this up.

"Scientific" gibberish that sounds that maybe it's supposed to mean
something...  :)   More shamanistic than the shamans...  ;)
 
 NB>> Especially for people who don't seem to realize that they are watching
 NB>> reruns... And since they'd likely only pass that way once, it doesn't
 NB>> make a lot of difference if they never go back... unless they diss it
 NB>> someplace that keeps others from trying it...  ;)
 ML> That's the point. You butter them up with attention
 ML> so you don't have to waste money renting a good chef.

So one distracts them so they won't diss the place...  I see...  ;)

ttyl       neb

... I have seen the evidence.  I want DIFFERENT evidence...

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