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January 5 at 2:15 am
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Charles Hudson, Rich Bragg, niniane and 4 other people liked this
"So the idea that the placebo effect applies only to subjective things is really one that we have to dismiss." - Paul Buchheit
How to implement this? - niniane
Well, it turns out that if you chew your chocolate really well, you can actually burn more calories than you are consuming. Trust me. - Rich Bragg
I'm pretty skeptical of this. It doesn't say anything about possible changes in diet due to the increased self-esteem of thinking they are exercising all the time - Chris White
I was under the impression that purely psychological therapies having objective physical effects was already established, such as guided imagery and immune system cells. see http://www.breastcancer.org/tr... - Karl Rosaen
I'd be happy to subject the finding itself to skepticism, but is the distinction the critic makes about subjective/objective effects of placebos even coherent? Even if it was, aren't all the classic demonstrations of placebo curing of illnesses, which, you know, are examples of objective phenomena? - j1m
Yes, this is probably true. But I have no doubt that the mind/brain can influence the body's natural ability to fight sickness. I just think there are more variables in this scenerio. It's also kind of counter-productive if it incents people to eat twinkies and skip going to the gym as long as they "think healthy." - Chris White
niniane, just pay your friends to dupe you, Bulworth-style. - j1m
