A placebo is not designed to do anything. However, it sometimes causes production of some extraordinary results from the human that receives it, even though there's no way that the ingredients of the placebo could cause it to happen. A placebo, in and of itself, is nothing.geckzilla wrote:That's the opposite of a placebo.Beyond wrote:Although I've tried a few different things that were guaranteed to work, but did absolutely nothing, like a placebo.
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A placebo, in and of itself, is nothing.
A placebo is something that works because the human mind expects it to. I have read (and don't ask me to back it up with a source) that if a doctor believes in the treatment he or she prescribes for the patient, then the treatment works better. If the doctor feels doubtful about the treatment, then the patient doesn't respond to it so well. The placebo effect in this case comes from the doctor.
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Some people may call that... having faith in the doctor.
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The workings of a placebo are interesting. Recent research suggests they work just as well even when the patient knows they aren't real medicine. It is hypothesized that the ritual involved in taking the treatment is what is actually beneficial, which would explain the mild efficacy of homeopathic "drugs", colloidal silver, and other agents that certainly have no biological value for treating any medical conditions.Ann wrote:Beyond wrote:
A placebo, in and of itself, is nothing.
A placebo is something that works because the human mind expects it to. I have read (and don't ask me to back it up with a source) that if a doctor believes in the treatment he or she prescribes for the patient, then the treatment works better. If the doctor feels doubtful about the treatment, then the patient doesn't respond to it so well. The placebo effect in this case comes from the doctor.
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This is actually the second time you have tried to convince us. It's actually crackpottery and it's not mainstream science so while I feel strongly against it there is also a good reason for you to not discuss it anymore.Beyond wrote:It's not an extraordinary claim to me. And I'm not trying to prove it to you or anyone else.geckzilla wrote:The burden of proof does not lie with me. You are the one making the extraordinary claim.
You won't even acknowledge the shortcomings of your argument or the strengths of any counter-argument. You only accept something which reinforces your belief despite being presented overwhelming evidence to the contrary*. You picked the one thing (no human studies) which reinforced your belief. You know why there have been no human studies? It would be unethical to study harmful effects of colloidal silver on human subjects. That is as classic as it gets.Beyond wrote:Well, I'm not sure what you mean by "classic selection bias", but seeing as how I've never had a failure in eliminating a cold with it, how could there be any "selection bias"? Normally, (another key word?) i would ascribe "classic selection bias" to being city slicker talk, but you live out in the country up on a mountain, so i suppose I'd have to refer to it as high altitude effect.Chris Peterson wrote:Classic selection bias.Beyond wrote:I used the word usually, because one time i didn't catch it fast enough and it took a couple of days to get rid of it. My sinus' like to drip a lot, unless the weather is really dry, so the cold was able to 'sneak up' on me. Thus the term usually was used to be technically correct.
*Edit: Goofed here slightly. What I should have written was overwhelming evidence that it is harmful and complete lack of evidence that it is helpful in any way.
A placebo could be any substance which placates the person receiving it. Sometimes it is designed to have a purpose even though it actually has no physical effect (or, in your case, unknown or possible long-term negative effects) but the giver and the patient believes it so the placebo effect takes place. Other times it's designed specially to be inert. It's definitely something.Beyond wrote:A placebo is not designed to do anything. However, it sometimes causes production of some extraordinary results from the human that receives it, even though there's no way that the ingredients of the placebo could cause it to happen. A placebo, in and of itself, is nothing.geckzilla wrote:That's the opposite of a placebo.Beyond wrote:Although I've tried a few different things that were guaranteed to work, but did absolutely nothing, like a placebo.
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There is not overwhelming evidence to the contrary. the facts are thus. Beyond drinks it and his colds go away, we know this because it happens. whether this is a placebo effect or something to do with the colloidal silver has not been proven. Another fact is that silver does have a sterilising effect on water, so if it is able to sterilise water maybe it can sterilise saliva which contains the germs at the back of the throat (this part is speculative and not a fact). another fact is that it turns you blue if not done properly and in excessive amounts. no one is correct and no one is wrong we just dont know yet.
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Hey, why not clone this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc_and_the_common_cold but make it about silver this time?Beyond wrote:I've never had a failure in eliminating a cold with it
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But what makes you think there is a connection, and these are not two separate facts?wonderboy wrote:Beyond drinks it and his colds go away, we know this because it happens.
For example. At my job I am fixing bugs in computer software. I am also sitting and typing on my keyboard. If I do not sit, or do sit but do not type, bugs aren't getting fixed. Would it be reasonable to suggest then, if you were to come into my office, sit in my chair and type on my keyboard, they bugs will be again fixed? I don't think so
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not really, in this example, regarding your bugs. I could be a placebo. "I will fix your bugs," i would say, and you would offer me your chair I would sit and the amount of work that would get done would be equal to the centre of a donu. However, also in your example, you are the colloidal silver that gets the job done!!!
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How do you the silver is me, and not, for example, my chair, or my keyboard?wonderboy wrote:However, in your example, you are the colloidal silver that gets the job done!!!
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because you are the active ingredient in the situation. i sit on your chair and type on your keyboard but have no real interaction with either in order to produce the required effect. You are the active body in the whole scenario.
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Okay, that's enough about colloidal silver. No more, unless you are presenting peer-reviewed papers in respected journals of research which bolsters your position. If you don't have any such resources to present about its efficacy, do not mention it again on these boards.
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thanks owlice ![Smile :-)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
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Owlice, my acronym finder doesn't list anything for ETA. Would you kindly enlighten me? Thank you.
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owlice wrote:
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- [b][color=#0000FF][size=125]Dirichlet eta function [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/5/b/9/5b93d253270e3ef6cc021b7b6d1ed378.png[/img] in the complex plane. The color of a point s encodes the value of [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/5/b/9/5b93d253270e3ef6cc021b7b6d1ed378.png[/img] . Strong colors denote values close to zero and hue encodes the value's argument.[/size][/color][/b]
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Dirichlet eta function
<<In the area of analytic number theory, the Dirichlet eta function is defined by the following Dirichlet series, which converges for any complex number having real part > 0:
This Dirichlet series is the alternating sum corresponding to the Dirichlet series expansion of the Riemann zeta function, ζ(s) — and for this reason the Dirichlet eta function is also known as the alternating zeta function, also denoted ζ*(s). The following simple relation holds:
While the Dirichlet series expansion for the eta function is convergent only for any complex number s with real part > 0, it is Abel summable for any complex number. This serves to define the eta function as an entire function (and the above relation then shows the zeta function is meromorphic with a simple pole at s = 1, and perhaps poles at the other zeros of the factor.>>
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Had a dream last night that I was in some tropical place and I took a photo of a partial solar eclipse, a rainbow, and Venus all in the same frame and I submitted it to APOD.
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Zefrank is pretty much the best nature documentary maker.
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Well, now that I've stopped laughing... I can agree with you
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