Year: 2010

In 1842, a Mrs. Simon was traveling by train through the English countryside when a torrential downpour began. The kind-looking elderly gentleman sitting opposite her suddenly arose, opened the window, put his head out, and kept it out…

A placebo has no pharmaceutical properties; if it works, it works only because of my own belief in its efficacy. If I know that I’m taking a placebo, it will be ineffective. So while the placebo cures me…