Word: healed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Faith can heal, but that has been known to science for a long time. It is called the placebo effect. It does not matter whether that faith is based on reality. JOHN MITCHELL London
Before you get too carried away with the importance of faith and healing, let me remind you that a good, positive-minded atheist is just as likely to be healthy and to heal quickly as the person who chooses to dwell in the bubble of religious fantasy. GEORGE CROSTA Ocean Park, Washington...
...anonymous prayers can heal you, then my anonymous curses should be able to make you quite sick. You can't have this kind of faith healing without opening the door to voodoo. ROB EISENBERG Tryon, North Carolina Via E-mail...
...come on, "The Net"?) Harvard seems to have gotten the formula right, for now--three excellent movies are being presented this weekend and next week, free with a Harvard Summer School ID. And what could be better than a cool, dark movie to help that Fourth of July sunburn heal...
Many researchers believe these same neuronal and hormonal pathways are the basis for the renowned and powerful "placebo effect." Decades of research show that if a patient truly believes a therapy is useful--even if it is a sugar pill or snake oil--that belief has the power to heal. In one classic 1950 study, for instance, pregnant women suffering from severe morning sickness were given syrup of ipecac, which induces vomiting, and told it was a powerful new cure for nausea. Amazingly, the women ceased vomiting. "Most of the history of medicine is the history of the placebo effect...