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Is this specific to medicine? In physics it’s perfectly ok to say “ here is an observation which can’t be explained with our current knowledge “. See dark mat
by Ididntdothis 7y ago
Is this specific
to medicine? In physics it’s perfectly ok to say “ here is an observation which can’t be explained with our current knowledge “. See dark matter and dark energy.
The story of Ignaz Semmelweis seems to indicate that medicine is different from physics in that aspect.
- 1_over_n 7y agoPlacebo effects are very real and any drugs efficacy will include some placebo effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo#Placebo-controlled_studies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo#Placebo-controlled_stu...
- Ididntdothis 7y agoThat’s another thing I wonder about. What’s so wrong about the placebo effect? If it makes people feel better we should embrace it. I think a lot of things like yoga work because they are done in positive environments by positive people. Whereas a lot of regular medicine is performed in pretty negative circumstances. So the same treatment may not work in a doctors office but it may work in a yoga studio.
- Smoosh 7y agoThe problem isn't the placebo effect per se. Nor with it's application as a treatment. It's with misleading people as to what is actually helping them. For example selling magical crystals to adjust your aura. I don't know about studies and evidence specific to yoga, but would suspect it's benefits are a combination of real and placebo. Thus it isn't all placebo effect as there is a foundation of actual therapeutic benefit.
- Noumenon72 7y agoLaypeople don't believe in dark matter yet. They're skeptical and expecting something with a clearer expectation. Physicists and yourself can accept dark energy because you are in the "small slice of well-educated people who are comfortable with complexity and the limits of knowledge".