Quote Originally Posted by Caprisun View Post
Whatever juroara, I just spent a consiberable amount of time telling you why it is not scientific.
What is not scientific? An experiment was set up, and there were results. That's science! There are plenty of experiments showing the placebo effect to be real, including people taking sugar pills and testifying how great their new medicine works. You can talk all day about the biology of the plant, it doesn't negate the results of the experiment.

It means that something very strange and fascinating is happening that is worthy of research, not turning a blinds eye and pretending these accounts didn't happen. I didn't post these examples as a scientific argument. I posted them to spark some sense of curiosity in you. Aren't you the least bit curious as to why the placebo effect works? Do you ever question how often the placebo effect is working?

I have a strange inkling that maybe the findings of such an experiment would be inconclusive, but a person with a mindset similar to yours wold have no problem injecting the results they expected.
That's how you feel. And that's exactly what that is, how you feel.

I could call my dorm room a labratory
A good scientist would turn their room into a laboratory. But since Bruce teaches at the university level, I would like to think he would have some access to their facilities.