re selective placebo in article apr rose com ron roth rose com ron roth writes otoh who are we kidding the new england medical journal in ran the heading ninety percent of diseases are not treatable by drugs or surgery which has been echoed by several other reports no wonder mds are not amused with alternative medicine since the magic of the placebo effect would award alternative practitioners twice the success rate of conventional medicine of diseases is not the same thing as of patients in a world with one curable disease that strikes people and nine incurable diseases which strikes one person each medical science will cure of the patients and report that of diseases have no therapy a disease would be counted among the untreatable if nothing better than a placebo were known of course mds are ethically bound to not knowingly dispense placebos dk
