it says that accupuncture (both “real” and “sham”) was seen to be effective in combatting pain
Oh damn I missed that. I got too distracted by the Effectiveness research section. So there you go, I found a reasonable explanation, although I was more looking forward to some sort of fundamental bias that effects everyone, which I must have somehow missed. Would have been a good explanation to some things.
Still, I’m waiting for someone to appear with a very good hypothesis of the cancer case. I’m not saying there has to necessarily be one, but there might be. Placebo was in fact a very good hypothesis, but I’m not sure if you can cure cancer with placebo (“Yes, you can” would close the case).
Edit: I looked it up, apparently placebo doesn’t affect cancer. Surprising.
Oh damn I missed that. I got too distracted by the Effectiveness research section. So there you go, I found a reasonable explanation, although I was more looking forward to some sort of fundamental bias that effects everyone, which I must have somehow missed. Would have been a good explanation to some things.
Still, I’m waiting for someone to appear with a very good hypothesis of the cancer case. I’m not saying there has to necessarily be one, but there might be. Placebo was in fact a very good hypothesis, but I’m not sure if you can cure cancer with placebo (“Yes, you can” would close the case).
Edit: I looked it up, apparently placebo doesn’t affect cancer. Surprising.