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StClone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 02:46 PM
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Scientists find chemical clues behind placebos (effects)

U-M scientists find chemical clues behind placebos

By Sharon Terlep / The Detroit News


Source: University of Michigan Health System


The "placebo effect" isn't a figment of the imagination after all, but a phenomenon with a chemical explanation, University of Michigan researchers say in a study being published today.

http://www.detnews.com/2005/health/0508/28/C01-291098.htm
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 02:47 PM
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1. Bush is a PLACEBO???? LOL
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BlueJac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 02:58 PM
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2. His twins are too??
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 04:40 PM
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4. The Placebo Twins. .............................
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KT2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 03:04 PM
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3. Brave volunteers
a study where they give an injection that causes pain in the jaw??

I do believe that the "psychological explanation" is the garbage can into which what is currently unknown is dumped.

TB was once considered an illness of those of low character and artistic types.
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