Re: EVIL

[trmarchand@ucdavis.edu (Tara Marchand)]

Lazlo Nibble (lazlo%ariel.unm.edu@triton.unm.edu) wrote:
: <rjc@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk> wrote:
: > [ BTW: Faith healing works. Certified, well attested scientific
: >        fact. Hence the need for double blind trials. ]
: Dog vomit.  Either give cites, clarify your statement, or withdraw it.

Wow, what a violent response.  He's probably talking not about how faith
healing works as a metaphysical phenomenon but rather how it works because
of the placebo effect, kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy.  If a person
thinks he or she will be healed by the actions of a faith healer, it
increases the likelihood that he or she will be.  It's a psychosomatic
phenomenon.  Now, I don't happen to have any citations on hand at the
moment, but it's easy enough to find scientific documentation of this. 

Tara
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