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Costly placebos are more effective!
Some patients undermine how effective a drug is if they are told it is rather inexpensive, i.e., costly placebos are more effective than cheap ones. That is the conclusion of Dr. Dan Ariely‘s landmark research that received the Ig Nobel prize for medicine. During the experiment, his team told volunteers that they were being given …
Vanaras in Ramayana
A very good friend of mine asked if it could be possible to find some reality in Ramayana by explaining the existence of Vanaras as neanderthals? I have the following response. Paleolithic period, or Old Stone Age, is the earliest period of human development and the longest phase of mankind’s history. It is approximately coextensive …
Worldviews and Opinions of Scientists in India
The Worldviews and Opinions of Scientists Project –by the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture at Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut– is aimed at conducting a series of surveys in countries with differing cultures, in order to learn who today’s scientists are and to compare their thinking about a range of contemporary …
