Stossel Testing Therapeutic Touch

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Video “Stossel Testing Therapeutic touch” (7/17/16). Some things never change like the idea of the placebo effect that is relevant today. A fourth grader conducted a study which proved therapeutic touch was ineffective, yet therapeutic touch is still in used. Scientists say it is still use because if someone believes something like therapeutic touch will work then it may. This is known as a placebo effect. Placebos are extremely relevant today, so much so that they are used in experiments for products to gain the approval of the FDA. FDA approval contains placebos to insure a product actually does what it claims it does, and it is not just working because a group of people believe in the product. In these experiments the placebo group

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