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Tag: beliefs

Sat
Mar 20th
2021
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Panacea or Poison: Placebos and Nocebos in Modern Medicine

Placebos “work” for quite a few medical problems. But how? And what is the work they do?

What one thinks a medicine is capable of, one’s idea of that medicine, may affect us in the way “proper” medicines do. This implies that, in observing the work of a placebo we are watching an idea affect biology, the mind moving the body.… read more »

Sat
Mar 26th
2016
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Understanding Genius II: Women

Name five female geniuses off the top of your head. If you find yourself stumbling after Madame Curie, you are hardly alone. Why should this be when there is no shortage of brilliant, creative women, who are as numerous in history as they are today?… read more »

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