On
that last question can believing make you well so the stress research field is
a lotfarther along than the belief research field and the reason I think years
becauseit's a lot easier to stress someone and measure anoutcome than it is to
say okay believe and measure something however there aremany scientists now who
are beginning to study these kinds of issues in a verysophisticated and careful
and rigorous fashion and when I say belief I'm using the wordvery loosely
belief in healing is really CogniQthe placebo effect now unfortunately the placebo
effectcarries with it that word carries with it a lot of baggage its just the placebo effect right well if the
placebo effect was so just so week why would we have to do clinical controlled
placebo-controlledtrials for every drug in order to determine the so-called
real biological activity ofthat drug right you have to subtract the to percent up the placebo effect in.
