Five things that modern science cannot explain:

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24. Actually there have been cases where the placebo effect helped people with cancer.

Larry Dorsey MD, offers up one very peculiar case in one of his early books. A patient was suffering from an extremely aggressive form of cancer. Such that you could run your hands across his body and feel the tumors.

Doctors were not giving him long to live, maybe weeks, maybe a month.
The patient found out about some new protocol that was supposed to be totally effective at curing cancer. (Ketamine, maybe? I don't really remember the substance that was supposed to have these remarkable attributes.)

Well, the patient's personal doctor got him some of the substance, figuring that since he had only a short time to live, what harm could it do.

But remarkably, after it was applied to his body, the tumors stopped growing and then began to atrophy. Within a week or ten days, he was tumor free.

The patient became so healthy he went back to his usual lifestyle and was even flying his planes again.

Then one day he read in a newspaper article that the substance he had been given, that had been believed to hold such promise for eliminating cancerous tumors, was bogus, as now experts realized it had no such abilities.

So within a short time, all the many tumors came back. His doctor confronted him with the news that there was a new improved version of the original miracle substance, and this time, applications of the miracle substance were made, but this time, unknown to the patient, all that was used was water. Just plain water.

And once again, the tumors fell away and the man became healthy. However within some months he found out that there was no new and improved version of the substance, and he again had the tumors aggressively come back, and he then died a short time later.