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Trillo

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Wed Nov-07-07 02:30 PM
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4. I'm always fascinated by the concentration on positive aspects of the placebo

Edited on Wed Nov-07-07 02:31 PM by SimpleTrend

effect. It seems to me that the skeptics who dis this seem to understand the negative aspects of placebo well. Doesn't the authoritarian who creates submission understand the value of negative expectation? Doesn't the educator who makes an example of one student, or a small group of students, by expelling them, understand the negative placebo created in the minds of the remaining students?

What expectation, one wonders, is created in the minds of the expelled?

Oh, right, we're not supposed to go there, that's "dark thinking". Be positive. Be happy. {insert ironic smilely jingo here}

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