The Placebo Effect in Medicine
A report by Finnish researchers and published just last month in the New England Journal of Medicine, finds that the benefits of keyhole operations to repair degenerative knee problems like tears in the meniscus are of no greater value than sham operations. Before we go any farther…don’t you find it disturbing that they would do “fake” operations just to see how people would respond? In any event, they respond just as well as they do to the “real” operation. Doesn’t this mak
