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              carcinisation.com
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| | | | | This appendix to "A Case Against the Placebo Effect" reviews the studies in the Sauro and Greenberg (2005) meta-analysis on the effect of opioid antagonists on placebo analgesia, in alphabetical order. Next, the relevant sizes of the study arms for each study are provided. Finally, research into the "placebo effect" in depression is reviewed. Brief... | |
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              homeopathy4health.wordpress.com
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| | | | | I know it's been reported on other blogs but I thought I'd include it on mine as well, for completeness sake. UK GP website Pulse reports: Homeopathy is as effective as conventional therapy in children with eczema, concludes the first prospective cohort study to compare the treatments. The German study in 118 children with eczema... | |
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              pharmrev.aspetjournals.org
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| | | | | This paper formulates the action of psychedelics by integrating the free-energy principle and entropic brain hypothesis. We call this formulation relaxed beliefs under psychedelics (REBUS) and the anarchic brain, founded on the principle that-via their entropic effect on spontaneous cortical activity-psychedelics work to relax the precision of high-level priors or beliefs, thereby liberating bottom-up information flow, particularly via intrinsic sources such as the limbic system. We assemble evidence for... | |
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              qri.org
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| | | There are at least some encouraging facts that suggest it is not too late to prevent a pure replicator takeover. | ||