http://granitegeek.disqus.com/enWed, 11 Nov 2009 12:04:26 -0000http://granitegeek.org/blog/2009/11/11/alternative-medicine-works-thanks-to-placebo-effect/#comment-22744571<p>Interesting point. Perhaps that is how we can define "real medicine" - it's a treatment that works even when the patients is sure that it won't. </p>DaveBrooksWed, 11 Nov 2009 12:04:26 -0000http://granitegeek.org/blog/2009/11/11/alternative-medicine-works-thanks-to-placebo-effect/#comment-22728913<p>No one ever seems to look at it the opposite way... if you are sure something is useless chances are it is.</p><p>I know that aspirin and ibuprophn work to cure aches and pains overnight. My father knows that is all a bunch of hooey.</p><p>Unquestionably true that I brush off the aches and pains more easily when I think I have taken something, even if I find it on the counter the next day.</p><p>Unquestionably true too that no medicine has ever helped my father with any ache or pain.</p>mrwgWed, 11 Nov 2009 10:28:33 -0000