Facts rarely get in the way of a good story. There is a foundational myth in placebo research that has been repeated over and over again, sometimes with inexplicable flourishes, often with the...
Pfizer and BioNTech鈥檚 RNA vaccine against COVID-19 has just been authorized by Health Canada. There will be many Internet whispers, half-truths and lies about how it works and how safe it is, so...
The U.S. is abuzz with chatter about Oprah for President. She makes a thoughtful, rousing, captivating speech at the Golden Globe Awards and people are ready to usher her into the Oval Office. But...
鈥淟aughter is the best medicine!鈥� That鈥檚 an old adage, maybe even dating back to the biblical era. The book of Proverbs in the Old Testament proposes that 鈥渁聽 merry heart doeth good like a medicine:...
When John Milton wrote in Paradise Lost that the mind can make a heaven of hell and a hell of heaven, without realizing it, he was talking about the 鈥減lacebo鈥� and the 鈥渘ocebo鈥� effect. 鈥淧lacebo鈥�...
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