Thread: Couch 91 - Forget the small change
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Old Apr 02, 2015, 02:02 PM
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I don't think pharmaceutical companies are the end all, be all, but I have enough scientists as friends to know that they're doing actual research. And if someone wants to do alt med that's cool. But I prefer to see studies first, that's just me. It's probably why I feel so iffy about antidepressants - so much vagueness! :P

And I don't knock the placebo effect. I think it's useful. The human brain is pretty amazing.
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I think it is a bit off to consider all alternative medicine as placebo effect.
I trust centuries of people not dying from everything without scientists more than I do drug companies. I don't trust drug companies or their alleged studies and scientists - if you do - then fine.
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