New Age and the placebo effect
Are New Age treatments, like acupuncture, a scam? Are patients simply feeling placebo effects?
This one acupuncturist flipped the argument on its head by retorting that the scientific discovery of the placebo effect was actually the most profound finding in the New Age movement!
While on the surface this sounds like creative rhetoric on her part, I think I actually agree. If your belief in a positive outcome can have salutary effects to your body, then isn't that proof positive of the existence of mind-over-matter?
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