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...possible that the nocebo response is easily explained: in the antidepressant trials, maybe some patients - given that they already tended toward depression and anxiety - worried so much about the doctor's cautions that their stomach released enough acids to cause pain. That would make sense except that the range of possible nocebo responses stretches far beyond stomachache (in extreme cases, ailing patients who are mistakenly informed that they have only a few months to live will die within their given time frame, even though postmortem investigations show that there was no physiological explanation for early death). In a new paper...
...Copenhagen could have been put to better use. But it’s doubtful that his not making the trip would have magically ended the recession or made Congress agree on a health-care bill. There is little point in making a fuss over an act that damaged nothing except for Chicagoans’ pride...
...Except when she calls Georgina crazy to her face...
...email, Anna Yun, a mental health counselor at South Bay Mental Health Center in Boston with no apparent connection to Harvard, offered to make “pumpkin muffins, sour cream coffee cake, [or] coconut cream pie” (her specialty) for the next faculty meeting. The reason? None, except “that it would make me happy and hopefully make the faculty meeting more...
Obama said that he was both "surprised and humbled" by the award, and there's no reason whatsoever to think that he wasn't. But that word humbled is an interesting one to think about. Humility is a virtue - except when it isn't. We think of it as one of the attributes that make up a certain quiet acceptance of one's lot, even saintliness - think of Pope John XXIII. At the same time, what the books call false humility - the act of constantly saying that one is not worthy, a not-so-subtle way of provoking someone else...