How will AI combate these effects? > > > http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1929869,00.html?xid=rss-topstories > -This one reminds me of one study done using prayer where the recipients fared worse. My conclusion was that if people think they're so bad off that they're being prayed for, they "think themselves sick." -> And another legal problem is presented. With all these brain scans that purport to understand how the brain is 'really' thinking, what erroneous conclusions might appear as 'junk science' in Court. > > http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1440928-I'm not too worried about this. There's already a chilling effect flying through law enforcement dealing with certain cases where the DNA evidence was providing "false positives." While such cases are rare, it's good to know that statistics prevails: A 1 in 15 Million event will happen 20 times a day in our country.

How do placebos work? MRI's of the spinal cord show where. How is a other issue. Endorphans? A new discovery:-http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17993-placebo-effect-caught-in-the-act-in-spinal-nerves.html