Paul, thanks for the laugh for the day! Funny, but it's also sad. Sally
Paul Holloway <p.j.hollo...@btinternet.com> wrote: This is the mentality of the FDA: Richard Bandler (the Neurolinguistic Programming guy) tried marketing a placebo, but predictably the FDA didn't like it. The following is from his book "Time For A Change": "You may have thought a placebo works because the person doesn't know it's a placebo. It works because of belief. In the USA we do an unusual thing. We test all drugs against placebos. That's what a double-blind test does. So we have more information on placebos than we have on all drugs put together. Robert Dilts and I had an idea. We decided to put out a product, tiny empty capsules, called "Placebo." No side effects. Robert was my grad student at the time. He reviewed the research on standard problems like headaches. We made plans to publish a little booklet with an index. A person would look up headaches and read, "When tested against other drugs, placebos work five out of six times." Then it would say, "Take seven when you have a headache." It's a sure thing. The FDA complained. They told us the effects would wear off. Placebo would lose its efficacy. We knew that could happen. Some people would not get the beliefs built in tenaciously the first time. We revealed our backup plan. "NEW! PLACEBO PLUS! TWICE THE INERT INGREDIENTS! TWICE AS POWERFUL AS EVER BEFORE!" Of course, drug companies run the FDA. So they wouldn't let us do it. They couldn't find any danger. The capsules were empty. There was nothing there. They told us this was illegal and immoral. "Besides," they said, "it will never work, so we won't let you do it." We had proved that it would work. We had decades of their experimental results from them. We also had our own results. My clients often knew a placebo when they got one. They still do. I actually give them the ability to believe that it works because it is a placebo. I explain that since they already know it for a placebo, it will work forever. It does." -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Discover all thatÂ’s new in My Yahoo!
