[ExI] Radiation danger (was: sendup of Hobby Lobby)

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:53 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

>
> Another angle: it seems like placebo effect would work both directions.
> Perhaps positive placebo effect works on optimistic people and the negative
> works on pessimistic people.  I know plenty of pessimists who seem to
> somehow will themselves into sickness.  I think I know more pessimists than
> optimists.  Perhaps I am comparing them to myself, the well-known
> super-optimist.
>

### It's the "nocebo" effect, well-known in medical circles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo
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