[Chrisoaks]

> Of course, without any treatment at all, the pain would also have gone away after a few days.

And if you struggle for years with chronic back problems and doctors don't really have an answer except to prescribe addictive painkillers and then you see a chiro and everything is cleared up in a couple days?

Telling me that's a coincidence is just gaslighting.

Sorry, I have no clue what confluence of political/cultural forces have led to the inability of science to figure out how/why this stuff works.

Maybe in another 40 years. Good luck!

[yarcob]

Scientific studies have shown that the placebo effect is very real. You may think that a placebo could never help with your back pain, but I see no reason why a random person on the internet should be immune to the placebo effect.

[vharuck]

"Do you know what they call 'alternative medicine' that's been proved to work? Medicine."

- Tim Minchin