Wednesday, January 7, 2009

The Placebo Effect

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20081217/Note3.asp

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

The placebo Affect is a cool affect, my mom made me eat my medicin and I got better but it turned out that these "pills" where just suger cubes. I also have seen this on an episode of mash. It Works all right

Anonymous said...

That is so cool. In addition to having self-made cures, you can also save tons on your medical bill. Instead of paying tons of ca$h for expensive pills, people can take sugar cubes recommended by a doctor for their sickness, and they will feel majorly better. This is an amazing breakthrough.

Anonymous said...

I think that it is amazing that just expecting to feel better after you take the pill really does make you feel better. I think that this could be used to "cure" earaches or headaches or other minor illnesses.

Anonymous said...

Wow, how cool! The placebo affect is mostly amazing because really, the people who take the sugar pills are practically lying! I'm sure that the doctors shouldn't be in medicine because they give their patients "fake medicine"!

Anonymous said...

I think the placebo affect cures only people who think they are sick, which is why it works. I saw a mythbusters where they had people get sea sick by spinning, and gave them sugar cubes and said they were medication and they both felt better. I did that to my friend Briney once because she said her stomach hurt. Once I gave her the sugar cube she said she felt better, but when I told her it was a sugar cube she felt bad again, that is why I think if you don't throw up you are only psychologically sick. It has never happened to me, but I would fall for it, too.