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Originally Posted by Akama
Things don't get dismissed as having a placebo effect, it is not a matter of opinion, it is a matter of science.
Now I don't know about the research available for this particular technique and for all I know perhaps there is just one badly done study that came to the conclusion that it's not more effective than a placebo, again, I don't know that, but generally referring to a placebo effect is not dismissive, it's scientific.
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I disagree. Use of the term "placebo effect" is used by western medicine to dismiss all sorts of things, often things they are not getting money from, from what I have seen.
And I have found nothing about therapy to be scientific in the first place - which was my point. So if it works for somebody - great - if not - then try something else. All of therapy is the placebo effect, in my opinion.