rescue remedy: total cod or... witchcraft? (1 Viewer)

[egg_]

no, because if you know it's a placebo then there's no reason to expect it will work. duh.

What? You think people don't do things there's no reason to do?

 

[nooleen]

Placebos work because you expect them to, so even if you know something is a placebo but still think it'll work then it'll probably work

by definition it's not a placebo if the patient knows it has no pharmacological effect.

 

[D0njo]

CoD or Warcraft.... ...hmmm..

...hhmmnnmm.. ...Call of Duty or World of Warcraft... it's a tough choice alright but I'd probably go for Call of Duty

 

[nooleen]

"Yerra," said Foxer, "It's all a cod!"

 

[nooleen]

good wordplay by the way there donal

 

[D0njo]

My wordplay skills are really only computer-game based, I can't compete in any other arena.. ..but computer-games, wwhhooohh, watch out, linguo-assassin


aaahhh... ...linguo-assassin... ..see?

 

[egg_]

by definition it's not a placebo if the patient knows it has no pharmacological effect.

Bah. What do you mean "knows"?

HEY THUMPED, RESCUE REMEDY HAS NO PHARMACOLOGICAL EFFECT

Now they know it's a placebo. Will it still make some of them feel better? Yes it will (or they'll think so anyway). You can "know" contradictory things, miss nooly

 

[nooleen]

when i say knows, i mean knows, not claiming one thing but actually believing another.
if people believe it has an effect, then they don't believe it's a placebo.

 

[egg_]

So we agree then?

 

[nooleen]

i'm not sure, give me a couple of days to figure it out