Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:31:33 +0100 Subject: Re: Photographs and the Placebo Effect From: michaelP <michael-AT-sandwich-de-sign.co.uk> on 31/7/03 12:12 am, GEVANS613-AT-aol.com at GEVANS613-AT-aol.com wrote: > Is consciousness a psychic power, which can broadcast messages and control > people¹s minds? > > Scientists are doubtful, but millions of people believe it. > > On 18 June 2003, a crew from Channel Nine Australia¹s popular A Current > Affair news program filmed an experiment conducted by Bond University > psychologists > Norman Barling, Michael Lyvers and Jill Harding-Clark that was designed to > test the claims of a well-known Australian ³psychic healer.² Dennis Puffett > says he can relieve pain simply by manipulating people¹s photographs, even > when > the ³patients² themselves are far away even as far as Africa! Twenty > volunteers who suffered from chronic pain were recruited for the study via > advertisements in a local newspaper. ... {etc} I do not understand... what are you saying (seemingly nothing concretely...) concerning this report or quote or anecdote? what, pray, is the significance of this post to this list? regards mP --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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