The Placebo effect Cures Cancer!

The Placebo effect Cures Cancer and Allergies!

The case of Mr Wright...this begs the question... WHY isn't the placebo effect used on more cancer patients?

''Many doctors know the story of ''Mr. Wright,'' who was found to have cancer and in 1957 was given only days to live. Hospitalized in Long Beach, Calif., with tumors the size of oranges, he heard that scientists had discovered a horse serum, Krebiozen, that appeared to be effective against cancer. He begged to receive it.

His physician, Dr. Philip West, finally agreed and gave Mr. Wright an injection on a Friday afternoon. The following Monday, the astonished doctor found his patient out of his ''death bed,'' joking with the nurses. The tumors, the doctor wrote later, ''had melted like snowballs on a hot stove.''

Two months later, Mr. Wright read medical reports that the horse serum was a quack remedy. He suffered an immediate relapse. ''Don't believe what you read in the papers,'' the doctor told Mr. Wright. Then he injected him with what he said was ''a new super-refined double strength'' version of the drug. Actually, it was water, but again, the tumor masses melted.

Mr. Wright was ''the picture of health'' for another two months -- until he read a definitive report stating that Krebiozen was worthless. He died two days later.''




The Placebo effect seems to provide evidence that allergic reactions are psychological conditions: ''a study was carried out in Japan on 13 people who were extremely allergic to poison ivy. Each was rubbed on one arm with a harmless leaf but were told it was poison ivy and touched on the other arm with poison ivy and told it was harmless. All 13 broke out in rash where the harmless leaf contacted their skin. Only two reacted to the poison leaves.''

 

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What's wrong? One thread on this inanity isn't enough? Or maybe you didn't like the answers you're getting over there so you decided to try again?


From your "Debunking the Placebo effect" thread:

 

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Well it's been found the placebo effect not only cures cancer, but stops allergic reactions from happening alltogether, even if the patients are very allergic to something, being told they won't have a reaction and then them being unknowingly exposed to it, they do not have a reaction!

 

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Really? It has been found that administering sugar pills cures cancer? And stops allergic reactions altogether. Wow. Links please...

Do you by any chance know the difference between one-off anecdotal case studies and controlled statistical trials?

 

Look up ''hypnosis cures allergies''. The results were outstanding.