The placebo effect is SCIENCE [View all]

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It's an actual thing. If people believe that something is curing them, then it turns out that something happens in the brain to allow the body to help things along. This is not quite yet understood, but it is well documented, and it is real.

Homeopathy is bullshit (it's water, people), so is acupuncture, so are a lot of so called "herbal" treatments and cures. Chiropractors are 99% of the time a scam as well. Praying doesn't do anything, either. For the most part, these things are little more than superstition.

But if people really, truly, believe that something is happening in their bodies, then the placebo effect takes over. I know this is hard to swallow for us science minded folks. But sometimes ignorance truly is bliss. If I was suffering and nothing else was working for me, I'd' wish that I was science illiterate so that maybe the placebo effect would happen for me.