HSCI 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Dietary Supplement, Longitudinal Study, Recall Bias
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We are using a lot of it sill (natural products) Natural product is used most and deep breathing: shows some eicacy. Spending on cam- should we be spending on somewhere else ?: creates interest, manufacture of producion, business, evidence are very slim. Beliefs, science, evidence and faith: see how they relate, belief and science, diferent levels of belief that can go into faith (or derived by faith, can"t falsify faith, can put into test some, scieniic evidence is huge. No easy to igure out what the real answer is as it"s complicated. No evidence: lack of evidence doesn"t mean no evidence, evidence is a socio-cultural concept. Basics on ritual about placebo and etc (nice summary of everything) Remember that people say you have to believe in placebo in order to work but not necessarily as a lot of stuf goes unconsciously and we react to things unconsciously. Someimes they don"t believe in it and like what happened there? wow.