Lots of people rely on homeopathy. Can they all be wrong? Yes

[SheilaT]

18. Perhaps the most important thing to keep in mind

in how powerful the placebo affect is. It's something like 30%, meaning that if you simply give people a placebo, which is basically nothing other than perhaps a sugar pill, 30 percent of them will experience real improvement. Which means that a new medicine for whatever has to perform better than the placebo effect to be considered effective.

The human mind is powerful. Think of all those who are absolutely convinced that the microwaves from cell phone towers are the real cause of their ills. Or those that suffer from any one of a vast number of illnesses that can't be conventionally diagnosed but lead to real suffering.

It's been my observation that a great number of people are very invested in being ill. They suffer from SOMETHING, and by God they're not going to rest until they convince everyone else that their illness is real.

I just wish people would invest as much energy into being healthy.