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Bad ScienceQuesalid had proof of the fakery, he knew the trick as an insider, and was all set to expose those who carried it out; but as part of his training he had to do a bit of clinical work, and he was summoned by a family БЂwho had dreamed of him as their saviourБЂ™ to see a patient in distress. He did the trick with the tuft, and was appalled, humbled and amazed to find that his patient got better. Although he continued to maintain a healthy scepticism about most of his colleagues, Quesalid, to his own surprise perhaps, went on to have a long and productive career as a healer and shaman. The anthropologist Claude Lц©vi-Strauss, in his paper БЂThe Sorcerer and his MagicБЂ™, doesnБЂ™t quite know what to make of it: БЂbut it is evident that he carries on his craft conscientiously, takes pride in his achievements, and warmly defends the technique of the bloody down against all rival schools. He seems to have completely lost sight of the fallaciousness of the technique which he had so disparaged at the beginning.БЂ™ Of course, it may not even be necessary to deceive your patient in order to maximise the placebo effect: a classic study from 1965 БЂ“ albeit small and without a control group БЂ“ gives a small hint of what might be possible here ...» |
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