On 8/29/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There ought to be a pilot project: pick 200 unhappy people; and give
therapy to 100, free of charge, and give, say, $3,000 a month (after
tax), no strings attached, each to the other 100, and see which group
gets well faster.

that's hardly a "double blind" study (the "gold standard" of such
research) or anything like it. How about giving 200 people
cognitive-behavioral therapy and giving 200 a placebo, such as
Freudian therapy?
--
Jim Devine / "Self-exhaustion in war has killed more states than any
foreign assailant." -- BH Liddell Hart.

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