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Old 06-15-2006, 12:04 PM   #14
Kitsune
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Originally Posted by Karenv
And placebo, for those of you who think it means "fake" really means engaging your body's own defenses to fight disease.
Care to explain this theory? I've never heard of anything suggesting placebos trigger an immune/defense response other than those that are conditioned responses. The other prominent theory, the exectancy theory, certainly doesn't follow your idea, either.
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